Sooner or later, your small business will need more space for data storage. Information in the form of e-mails, documents, presentations, databases, graphics, audio files and spreadsheets is the lifeblood of most companies, and the applications that run and protect your business require a lot of disk space. In addition, a number of trends are fueling our growing hunger for storage:
- Some time by law require businesses to maintain and back up a variety of data, they might have otherwise deleted.
- For legal reasons, many small businesses are now archiving e-mail messages dating back five or more years.
- The pervasiveness of viruses and spyware requires ever-more vigilant backups–which requires ever-more storage capacity.
- Each new version of a software application or operating system demands more hard-drive real estate than its predecessor.
- The growing need to store large media files, such as video, and make them available to users on a network is generating demand for more sophisticated storage solutions.