To: Bill Fischofer who wrote (9601 ) 5/9/2001 12:12:56 AM From: Allen Benn Read Replies (1) | Respond to Everything is being driven by people productivity. The reason why the storage-centric paradigm is tearing the enterprise computing world apart and dethroning the central processor is entirely due to the need for staff productivity to keep pace with the explosive growth in storage. This is already the driving force in the enterprise space and will become overwhelmingly dominant over the next few years. The hardware cost is almost irrelevant--something that the "our box is cheaper" crowd still don't quite understand. The structures and architectures needed to manage petabytes relegate these factors to rounding errors.
