Storage issues haven’t changed a great deal in the last ten years. To be sure, disks have got faster and more intelligent and the price per megabyte has plummeted, but precious few organisations allocate their data onto it correctly, manage it properly or upgrade appropriately.

As disks get cheaper, why not throw them at a temporary storage niggle? But that decision almost always turns out to be a bad one in the long term. There’s nothing as permanent in the IT world as a temporary fix, and playing ‘extend and pretend’ can only last so long.