Presto, Storage!

Growth rates are 50 to 100 percent per year, the same as at large enterprises. A major reason is the need to preserve data to comply with new business regulations.

New network storage products offer high storage capacities at lower cost and with greater ease of use.

Vendors ranging from EMC/Dell to Bell Microproducts have announced and shipped network storage products for small enterprises in recent months.

Compellent’s Storage Center 3.5 has a graphical interface intended for nontechnical administrators.

In addition to lower cost and ease of use, the new storage systems bring such benefits as the ability to consolidate direct-attached storage in storage networks and the ability to implement snapshot data mirroring for better backup and