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Storage footprint to grow exponentially
Databarracks’ latest survey still take companies a considerable
results show that 87% of UK amount of time each day: 12% of the
companies expect some storage companies surveyed have at least
growth within the next 12 months one dedicated member of staff
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with more than half of these managing their backup solution,
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companies expecting to store up while 43% of the respondents had to
to 50% more data than the amount restore data at least once a month
stored in the previous year. and 10% of the participants needed
to restore data from backups daily.
“In the current economic climate Alarmingly in the past year 39% of companies surveyed cannot measure
the tendency is to cut expenditure companies said they were unable to the efficiency of their backup
wherever possible. Despite the recover backed up data due to systems as they have never run
global downturn, it appears that restore failures and a further 25% of restoration tests on stored data.
companies are still expecting to
see fairly sharp increases in the
amount of data that they need to
protect, this is set to remain fairly
difficult with the rate of data
growth and data centres
struggling with capacity” says
Peter Groucutt, Databarracks’
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Managing Director. “Another
interesting area that the survey
has highlighted is the growing
interest in virtualisation as a
cheaper way of ensuring that IT
Disaster Recovery costs remain
manageable. ”
While production of digital
information is set to continue to
SOLUTIONS:
> Business protection.
increase exponentially, and new
> Data consolidation.
technologies such as de- > Data management.
duplication help massively with
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> Optimisation.
>
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Virtualisation.
storage of information, the survey
has shown that the majority of
companies still rely on old
technologies such as tapes to
protect their data (32%). In other
areas new technologies such as
virtual environments have had
better take up are currently being
used by 33% of respondents,
though only 38% of these used
them in production environments.
Even with all the advancements in
data storage solutions, backups
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