Centralized file-cached storage protects against disaster: consolidated data is easier to protect, easier to manage, and much less expensive. But there's a problem - Disaster Recovery

Computer Technology Review, Sept, 2003 by John Henze

File caching enables efficient storage consolidation across the WAN, driving storage, management, and backup operations out of remote offices and into the data center. Backup and restore operations are much faster and more reliable in a centralized environment. Centralized file-cached storage is cost-effective because it reduces storage provisioning across the extended enterprise and reduces the costs of remote office IT support. The results include lower management costs, higher resource utilization, more effective backup, and improved disaster recovery, and the most important benefit of all--the confidence that all data will be available whenever and wherever it's needed.

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John Henze is vice president of marketing at Actona Technologies (Los Gatos, CA)