Federated Enterprise Storage
Storage Silos Isolate, Complicate, and Waste
The comic character Pogo is quoted as saying "We have met the enemy - and he is us!" Even in the rarified world of high tech, sometimes the enemy really is us.
In many enterprises storage has grown as a reaction to daily business demands rather than as part of a well-considered plan. The enterprise's organizational and political structures often forced the creation of storage silos. The shorthand seems to be: "add another drive, that should keep them quiet!" Studies indicate that approach results in almost 50% of drives being empty - which means half the capital budget on drives was wasted.
The resultant storage silos produce a system so complex that almost nobody knows where everything is stored. When someone leaves the company their files are often lost forever - along with the valuable information they contain. The silos also isolate - even people in adjacent offices email files to each other because it is just too much work for them to obtain shared access to a particular directory.
Federated Storage Unifies, Simplifies, and Saves
Twisted Storage can federate any number of storage silos into a single enterprise storage cloud - a cloud whose file management functions can consolidate files and reduce wasted drive space. A cloud that can be centrally managed and maintained. A cloud that can extend to every remote office to unify the enterprise storage system. A cloud that can scale as fast and as large as needed - and then scale back down if the need passes.
Twisted Storage - the Enterprise Storage Cloud.