Outsourcing data storage
3 April 2012
Q: My IT director has asked me to examine whether we should be outsourcing part or all of our corporate data storage. What are the pros and cons of this approach?
A: Gordon Lloyd-West, senior consultant for Open Methods, writes: There is a clear cost benefit to treating data storage a bit like waste disposal because of the steadily reducing costs of data communications. It’s obviously better to use the council than make your own staff take their bins to the dump!
One of the main reasons...