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Lean Storage: A Phased Approach to Information Lifecycle Management Can Improve the Productivity of a Storage Environment - Today, Not Years From Now

Overview The achievements of lean manufacturing - such as driving out waste and inefficiencies - offer valuable lessons for enterprises struggling with data storage issues. As a steel manufacturer learned, well-intended quick fixes can actually exacerbate larger business problems. This paper explains the same holds true for storage. Information lifecycle management is not a big-bang solution that is years away. It provides a strategic framework for addressing today?s storage problems in an incremental manner.

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Publisher	StorageTek, Storage Technology	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	June 2004	Downloads	35
Format	White Papers
Topics	Storage Management

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