You have in your organization lets say 100-200
desktops. if you're in an enterprise, there are many many more desktops. (Lets
leave Server & Laptops out of the scope for now).
Now, if you could have checked them all (Your IT
probably can) you would most probably see that each desktop has at least 1x80GB
hard drive, if not a minimum of 120/160GB drive.
Some probably have more than just one hard drive and
maybe even much larger.A standard PC at about 1,000 NIS comes today with a
250GB drive by default.If you do another check, I guess you could tell that
most of the drive space is NOT used.
So, why not share these empty spaces via the network as a dynamic shared
volume/s controlled by the domain- Storage of backups, snapshots
- Storage of temporary files
- Shared memory for disk/memory consuming applications like simulations etc
- Space for larger swap files to improve OS speed
- Databases backup
- Many more...
[2014: NAS and cloud are available. storage is so cheep]
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