AMI-Partners & Cisco recently listed the “Ten Tips for Making Your Business More Efficient”and the first two tips listed were:
- “Give employees secure, consistent access to information”
- “Delivery anytime, anywhere access to employees on the go”
Of course AMI and Cisco are referring to network technology, but anywhere, anytime access to information means storage as much as it means connectivity. Can you have one without the other?
Enter the realm of the netbook. A mobility tool designed to provide the anytime, anywhere access, but access to what?
Pete Steege blog’d that for the first time ever notebooks have taken over desktops in terms of global shipments. I wonder how long it will take netbooks to overtake notebooks…if ever. In a later post Pete asked if netbooks are trough of disillusionment.
Netbooks vs. notebooks? One area where notebooks have netbooks beat is storage. Hence the trough of disillusionment. But, what about network attach storage (NAS) equipped with secure remote access capabilities? Could a small business equip their employees with netbooks and implement an 8TB Seagate BlackArmor NAS 440 ? They would have secure anywhere, anytime, access to loads of information.
It’s like having an 8TB netbook.
Has anyone gone this route?
image by MyWay Mobile Storage
