| Disaster recovery and data archiving dominate storage concerns for 2008
BridgeHead Software’s Annual Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) Audit 2007 reveals that IT departments’ top ten storage related concerns are: 1. Disaster recovery (59%) Another issue identified by the research was ‘green’ storage which is likely to grow into an even bigger concern in 2008, with 84 percent of IT executives stating that storage vendors should be doing more to improve the energy efficiency of their products. The proportion of organisations holding over 1TB on primary storage has increased from 59 percent in 2006 to 73 percent in the 2007 ILM Audit. And at the top end, one in five (21 percent) of all organisations are now holding over 10TB of data on primary storage. But the research also reveals that between 30 to 50 percent of data held on primary storage is inactive and unlikely to be accessed again. Archiving systems can help to address the data growth challenge by automatically moving this inactive data off the primary store to low-cost disk, tape, and optical storage –maintaining the required level of access and security, while preserving higher-cost storage assets for data that is actively being used and greatly reducing the administrative burden of backing up and managing primary storage. While the survey reveals a clear intent to archive, 15 percent of organisations still do not archive at all. When asked what factors are driving interest in archiving, the top issue highlighted by the survey sample was disaster recovery (75 percent) followed by regulatory compliance (58 percent) and data growth (51 percent).
•Date: 4th Dec 2007• Region:UK/US •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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