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With the ever-increasing volume of data, automated storage technology must also be able to keep up to accommodate that growth.

The most often used is to multiply the storage capacity by adding disks. And how that can be used to make storagenya companies to follow the development of business not only that.

Here are tips from NetApp as a company you're dealing with the problem:

According to the survey conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group, IT professionals said that the scalability to support rapid growth of the virtual machine is one of the top three demands of data storage environments.

With the rise of virtualization and the increasing volume of data, the ability to develop (ability to scale) of storage into the determinants of success for the company. Storage environments are required to be flexible and responsive to changing business needs, while still maintaining high efficiency and speed.

"To meet the growing volume of data, one important question to be answered by the CIO is, do they have to do the scale up or scale out existing storage. To make an informed decision, the CIO must first understand the difference between the scale-up and scale out," said NetApp, in his statement on Sunday (8/28/2011).

Scale up is to utilize existing storage by adding disks to meet the increasing need. However, there are limits to scale up the capacity that depends on how much the maximum storage device that can be connected to one storage controller.

When the storage controller is full, then that can be done by the company is replacing the storage controller with a larger capacity so that existing disk can still be used without the need to replace it.

Implementation costs are relatively lower for scale-up storage making it an attractive method to increase capacity.

Scale out, on the other hand, address the capacity problem by providing additional storage systems (nodes). Do scale out storage can be done by grouping the storage systems and grid storage.

"More importantly, a scale out solution can have many nodes that are connected though separate geographical locations but still as one system," continued the company's already poor across this storage business.

Scale out also has the potential ability to aggregate IOPS and bandwidth of a storage controller for additional flexibility. Additional nodes also provides greater availability if one node has down.

So which one to choose? "Today, CIOs do not have to choose one of the scale up or scale out. Integrated Architecture provides the ability to do both, scale up and scale out, efficiently and effectively," explains NetApp.

Current unified storage architecture provides flexibility for customers to choose the solution that best fits their needs today and in the future.

"As a first step, the CIO should start by implementing ways and more efficient storage management to optimize utilization of existing assets," he concluded.