When in Doubt, Pundit
Meanwhile, the industry analysts were out en masse at this conference, offering up their advice on what products to buy, and how to keep the cost of storage down.
In his keynote speech on Wednesday, Gartner Inc. analyst Nick Allen, for instance, recommended that IT administrators keep a diverse range of vendors in their shop, to avoid getting locked into one vendors products and prices.
He also pointed out that, while ATA disks may have sent storage prices plummeting, administrators need to consider their environment carefully before splurging on a shipload of cheap disk. Users are drooling at the lower cost, he said. While the price of this stuff is compelling, the market isnt in particularly good shape.
Users who have predictable storage growth, and who wont be surprised by a sudden peak in demand, should therefore buy their storage in small increments, he said.
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