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# [3 important lessons learned about Storage Scalability…](https://www.nodeum.io/blog/3-important-lessons-learned-about-storage-scalability-)

 Written by [Valery Guilleaume](https://www.nodeum.io/blog/author/valery-guilleaume) | 12.12.2019

Exponential growth of data volumes put any company at risk .... 

- You can’t lose any data.
- You must secure and protect the data from many different threats.
- Backup Window too tight.
- You waste more time to find back and access data.
- Increased storage complexity and decreased efficiency...

Is it possible to avoid those issues in a cost-efficient manner ? Yes… but you need to solve 3 types of problems…

#### First problem to solve is a trade-off one

- Some solutions are good to store, archive and protect data.
- Other solutions are better to find and access data.

#### Second problem is to care for your end-users AND your IT OPS

- “End-users” want to access their data directly without any special requests.
- IT OPS want a self-service model for not being always in the loop and “blamed” for delays.

#### Third problem is the most critical one

- Nobody wants storage “silos”.
- Nobody wants technical lock-in.

#### Any seamless / all-in-one solution share these characteristics

- Run on commodity hardware and are vendor agnostic.
- Use an easy, highly scalable catalog.
- Create the metadata you need to automate your workflows. 
- Add any storage in a simple, effective way.
- Use open API’s so you can manage your data on flash, disks, tapes or clouds.

#### In summary, you have 2 options :

1. You don’t make the right trade-offs and the risks are **real** :

- Having silos
- Dissatisfied teams
- Budget overruns
- Increased complexity
- …

2. On the contrary, if you unify your storage ecosystem, you will have the **best** of both words :

- More productivity
- More flexibility
- Less costs
- More workflow automation possibilities
- More collaborative teams
- …

These informations help you ? Need more informations, let us know and comments this blog.

 

 

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