Q: Other?

A:

1. IoD centric (or focused)
   • A Unit of Information spends 98% of its ROI life on some form of a Unit of Technology. The Unit of Technology and its Manageware should be:
     1. Storage Aware
     2. Storage Centric
     3. What does Storage Aware and Centric mean?
2. What is the Speed Limit of the Information Universe in your IT shop?
   • Do you know?
   • Would you like to know?
   • How many I/O's does it take to move 1 TB/hour?
     1. For a Migration?
     2. For a Backup or Recovery?
     3. Do you have that many?
3. Do you have an Information I/O map of your IT shop?
   • Would you like to have one?
   • Would you like to know if it would be of value to you?
   • Would you like to know what is required to build one?
     • And make it dynamic?
4. Do you have a dynamic, online "Configuration at a Glance" of your:
   • Units of Information by LOB supported
   • Units of Technology by Units of Information supported
   • Automatically updated as Units of Information and Technology change?
5. Do you know where the Units of Information and Technology are in the ILM for your IT shop?
   • In service time?
   • Date of commissioning?
   • What is the Expiration or Decommission date?
6. If your IT shop budget is $2-$20-$200 million, or more, do you know how many dollars of that you are worth?
   • Or is it more important to just impress your boss that you are the IT shop?
   • Would you like to know how to determine "What you are worth?"
     • Just as sports figures, actors and other public figures have to determine what percentage of the revenue they generate they are entitled to.
7. Will P2P reshape the Storage landscape and change the way we think about Storage?
   • Want to find out?
8. Performance (and Tuning) Management
   • Monitoring the "Heartbeat". Can you feel the beat?
   • "A finger on the pulse". Too high, too low, too fast, too slow?
   • Event Monitoring Systems integration with Storage
     • Event Monitoring Systems are a function of IHA (Information High Availability) which is a feature of IoD
     • Alert systems
     • Notification mechanisms
     • Human Response Systems integration with Storage
       1. Storage is at the end of a long chain of Events from Human Response Systems such as:
          1. Workflow management
             1. Can your Workflow Management system be overwhelmed by multiple or catastrophic failure?
                1. The answer is Yes!
          2. Ticketing systems
             1. How does your Ticketing system respond to multiple or catastrophic failures?
                1. The answer is Poorly or not at All!
          3. How do you know the Event+ticket loop was closed successfully, correctly and completely?
          4. By Workflow disruption?
9. Storage Security
   • Is Identity Management required in the SMB and SOHO? It will be mandatory for the Enterprise.
   • Improve Alert and Notification mechanisms
   • Integration with workflow management and ticketing systems
   • Integrating operational processes into security systems
10. Wireless Storage
    • Wireless is a big driver for P2P.
    • Performance Management
    • Security