Hamilton--ASPs Are Poised to Strike

Yet, no matter how big the drive, one thing seems constant: You can never have too much storage capacity. And although drives continue to get cheaper, managing data storage is one of those headaches that never seems to go away.

Until now, maybe.

The latest buzzword going around IT circles these days is ASP. Though supposedly unrelated to the deadly snakes of Africa, Application Service Providers are a new genus in our midst. Like the term "consultant," it is an incredibly vague term that can mean just about whatever the speaker wants it to mean. In our little world, one of the ways in which ASPs are likely to take form (bite?) is by providing off-site data storage and management services.