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Brocade has published the findings from its fifth annual customer survey. For the fourth consecutive year, the cost and complexity of managing and maintaining storage environments and company data were customers' primary concerns for the upcoming twelve month period. The need for faster server provisioning and server virtualization, redesign considerations for future data center needs, and file data management followed closely behind.
Brocade conducts its annual end-user survey to track the key priorities and concerns of its enterprise customers, and uses the results to improve the company's product and services offerings.
Of the 660 enterprise customers who responded to this year's survey:
- 59 percent noted that reducing cost and complexity remains their top priority;
- 43 percent said the need to reduce server provisioning times, and
provide server virtualization are top priorities;
- 42 percent rated business continuity and disaster recovery as top priorities;
- 37 percent indicated plans to re-architect existing SANs for growth or next-generation data center needs;
- 34 percent identified file data management as a top priority (the largest increase in a category from last year's results).
In terms of business continuity and disaster recovery:
- Approximately 80 percent of respondents planned to implement new or enhanced block-level data replication over distance for disaster recovery in the next 12 months.
- When asked about implementing a business continuance/disaster recovery strategy for file data, 57 percent of respondents indicated they were planning to evaluate, test, or deploy a business continuity solution for file data, and 26 percent had already deployed a solution.
- Over 60 percent of respondents indicated that they replicated as much as 60 percent of their data to an offsite location for business continuity. Another 31 percent noted that they replicated more than 60 percent of their data offsite.
To read a summary of the complete survey results, visit http://www.brocade.com/customersurvey2007
•Date: 20th Sept 2007• Region: US/World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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