SNIA Europe end user survey looks at current data storage practices * 76 percent of respondents ranked reliability as a key requirement for their storage infrastructure, followed closely by recovery and continuity at 72 percent. Nearly half (49 percent) of respondents said that implementing reliability is ‘very challenging’; * Other challenges include improving resource utilisation (63 percent), integration and consolidation of assets (66 percent); * ILM (information lifecycle management) was seen as a requirement for 62 percent of the surveyed organisations, with 56 percent of these believing that there will be integration challenges. In the next 12 – 18 months the most likely initial steps towards implementing ILM will be separation of archival data from backup/disaster recovery data as well as e-mail archiving; * Compliance, which is rather tightly linked to ILM, will have a marked impact on capacity growth; 54 percent of respondents believe that compliance requirements will cause significant growth in their storage capacity; * There is still work to do with regards to both information and content management and storage automation in the eyes of the surveyed organisations, with over 66 percent and 53 percent respectively saying the two technologies still need to mature; * Nearly 68 percent of respondents believe that disk-to-disk-to tape back up is ‘ready or almost ready’.
•Date: 19th May 2006• Region: W.Europe / UK • Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity |
