Storage needs are growing faster than you have space for. Imagine a 53-percent growth in your storage needs in one year - that's the number that the IDC/InfoWorld Trends in Storage survey says your company will most likely face. So why would anyone think a smaller SAN would work for you? Yet that's exactly what Hewlett Packard is proposing. HP thinks we put too much emphasis on infrastructure and not enough on the information going into it.

Want to reduce your complexity? Then downsize using practical tips from HP, says the company's latest report. Yes, even you with tighter security constraints and larger amounts of confidential data can be blessed with a less complicated environment in which to work.

In the report, HP experts have touched on the problems quite well. The list of challenges is extensive. Yet HP redeems itself in the end by showing you how you'll be able to improve things by going smaller. It's worth a look - check it out here.