Problems and Ethical Issues with ADT

Although I have only touched on the positive points of organizations expanding to Automated Data Tiering, there are also some complications and ethical issues with this subject. In our economy today, no one can afford to lose their job, especially if it is not being taken over by a human but by a computer operating system. In an automated system such as ADT there is an entire field of employees who are no longer needed and they are the storage administrators. In the ComputerWorld article "2015: Who Will Run the Data Store?" Stacy Collett researches the question and title of the article. Right now there are many time consuming tasks that storage administrators deal with and companies pay for this financially and in time consumed as well, if it were all animated, there would be less reliance on storage administrators (Collett, 2010). An article that I have been relying on for most of my blog is the Scheier article in ComputerWorld ("Automating the Data Store") and he also gives some problems with ADT. With the developments so far the ADT system cannot handle large complex tasks. Also, few vendors offer the technology and it has yet to be proved in transaction-intensive environments where there is much more information and classifying becomes more complex (Scheier, 2010). As of now Automated Data Tiering is only effective for simple tasks which makes it useless for certain tasks. The age-old question can be asked again "just because we have the technology, should we implement it?" In this current economy, it might not be such a wise idea to take away the jobs of thousands of people and create more competition in the open job market.