Task Force on Network Storage Architecture: Management of future storage

Information storage systems are the bedrock on which a modern company rests: data has to be available to whoever needs it, whenever they need it, from wherever they may be. As a result, emphasis is beginning to shift from a processorcentric view of the world towards an storage-centric one: it is the information that holds the real value the processing merely exposes it. Realizing this model requires a storage system that can provide continuous, guaranteed accessibility to potentially vast quantities of shared information, with protection against both malicious attack and accidental failures, and scalability across a wide range of capacity and performance needs. Network-based storage, combined with smart storage management, can provide it.