The increasingly sophisticated and prolific world of IT has dramatically altered the demand for data storage and enhanced its value to the enterprise. In this highly competitive environment, the IT community has come to realize how the capabilities of on-line storage management and the presence of a standard operating system such as Windows NT can significantly enhance data storage systems. At the desktop level, office applications such as spreadsheets, word processors, database programs, multimedia, and imaging software have driven the most recent generation of PCs to the point where they feature hard drives with multiple gigabytes of storage and random access memory (RAM) of up to 1 gigabyte. Moving up to the department and workgroup levels, the demands on data storage have increased exponentially as users have begun working collaboratively on projects that generate terabytes of data and span not only departments and workgroups, but nations and continents.
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