Task Force on Network Storage Architecture: Management of future storage

John Wilkes - Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, 1501 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304-1126

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
processor-centric 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.