7 - Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research

Information
overload
Organizational
response
Customer
orientation
Changing
life style
Collaborati
on
Strategic
systems
Need for
real time
operation
Continuo
us
improve
ment
Reengineering
Global
spread of
end users
Technological
innovation and
obsolescence
Contextual
pressure
demands
8. Concluding remarks
This paper attempts to highlight the importance of storage devices in today’s information
intensive world and how decision makers can make use of the available information about
storage devices in making informed decisions about the use of these storage devices.
Different kinds of storage devices were discussed along with their advantages,
disadvantages and their preferred applications. This was followed by a section on the
contextual pressures that managers face with respect to managing, and in particular,
storing information. The organizational responses to these contextual pressures were
discussed and finally it was stated that, in order to make an informed decision with respect
to the use of storage media, a decision maker must take into account not only the
advantages and disadvantages of each storage media, but must also take in account the
contextual pressures in which they have to operate. An optimum decision with respect to
the use of storage media would depend on these factors.
246