Sunday, December 11, 2011

5 Hidden Costs of Networked Storage

When it comes to deciding which storage to go with, most IT considers disk space, connection type, and most of all, Purchase cost.

There are five hidden costs, by most of the customers I’ve met in the local market, they pay attention and consider the first two, which are:
  • System scalability
  • Maintenance and service fees
But most of them do not give much credit for the other three:
  • Software licensing
  • Complexity
  • Application and data availability


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