Introduction

Welcome to this website. This site has been primarily designed as a requirement for TECH 581 - Organizational Impact of Information Technology. It is an academic resource site and would be used for that sole purpose. The topic this site addresses is Storage Automation as it relates to business models that have been covered during the course of this class, giving detailed insight into the topic, its applications, implementations, challenges and also the future of storage automation.

Abstract/ Executive Summary

As business organizations expand and processes become more complicated, organizations are geared to look into the automation of their business processes and systems. Storage automation is one of few answers to the needs of such organizations. Managing storage has always been about managing risks, and the latest price to that puzzle is automation.

Storage automation is not a new concept in the IT world, it has been in existence for decades, which  makes the technology relatively old, but the application is new. But what is also new about Storage automation is what it offers to business organizations and models. The sophistication of storage automation makes it a much demanding technology for business organizations that deal with bulk information, especially when such information is broken into separate units within the same organization.

There is a direct correlation between the storage environment and the performance of an organization/ business. As an organization becomes more reliant on information, the automation of its storage resources become the backbone of that organization, and as a result, there is need to define what storage operations within the organization needs to be autonomous. This is essential because over-automating your storage operations might prove counter productive, thus, it is essential to be careful in adopting storage automation.

Therefore, this site focuses on how storage automation increases the effectiveness, quality, availability, timeliness of information and security etc of an organization, and eventually, helps you decide if storage automation is right for your organization or not.