Storage is one of the most over used and least understood terms in the ICT industry. In its simplest storage is basically any device that can hold long term data, eg: hard disk.

Consolidated Storage

In today's modern networks multiple servers is the normal way of life, it's not uncommon to have ten or twelve servers in a single environment. All of these servers require hard drives to hold information and also have enough spare capacity to allow for any new data. As you can imagine this can mean having a lot of spare disk capacity in your servers.

By using consolidated storage we have a single pool of disk that all servers draw from. This is a far more efficient way of working with the drive resouces you have invested in.