As expected, recent analysis coming out of research companies like IDC and Gartner indicate how tough the market is for IT – especially storage and server demand.
Companies large and small continue to invest in IT infrastructure that is critical to their business, and provide immediate return on investment. Okay, this has been said over and over again, but being a hard drive guy, and given the fact that data continues to grow despite the economy, there are opportunities for SMBs and VARs to look at the hard drive as a way to sustain IT (especially storage systems and servers until the economy bounces back and investment in IT becomes strategic again).
A new hard drive for your PC will not only increase capacity, but can also boost performance. Increase capacity and performance – sounds like the reason you would buy a new desktop – only at a fraction of the cost.
Notebook hard drive upgrades enable you to get more out of being mobile by giving you the capacity and performance you’ve come to expect out of a desktop PC, with the added advantage of being mobile.
In today’s economy SMB servers need to be “good enough” for day to day business applications. Moving data around, or deleting files to create additional server storage space is a time waster, and a new server is not in the budget.
Nearly every storage system features removable hard drives and / or hard drive trays. By replacing lower capacity drives, or filling empty trays in your storage system with high capacity drives, you are adding much needed capacity directly to servers (DAS), or on the network (NAS / SAN) without interruption to your day to day business processes.
Okay, for many of you, I am stating the obvious here. I hear a lot about the fact that SMBs are looking to extend the life of their existing IT, but I seldom hear any specifics on the ”how”.
How are you?
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