Archiving manages data growth
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Redditch Borough Council has web, adding to the build up of data moved.
invested in a data archiving solution on its centralised file servers using
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to optimise storage resources and direct attached disk storage. “Just the simple fact that data is
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support business continuity in the de-duplicated before it enters the
face of an increasing annual growth “We’re planning on using archiving archive will bring efficiencies,”
in stored data volumes. The council as one of the tools to effectively said Rob Seager who explained
is implementing BH FileStore data managing the rapid growth in data,” that there is a tendency for
archiving and management software said Rob Seager, IT Services several copies of files to be
from BridgeHead Software. Manager, who heads up a team of 12 maintained in different places.
that is responsible for the delivery of
In addition to removing static, IT services throughout the Reducing the volume of data held
historical data from expensive organisation. FileStore incorporates on primary storage will help cut
primary storage, the council expects a policy based archiving engine the council’s daily backup
FileStore to help improve business which can automatically identify and windows and make data recovery
continuity and resilience by remove static data from expensive faster to support business
streamlining daily full backup primary storage. The data is continuity. The total time and
schedules which in some cases are indexed, compressed and placed resources devoted to backup can
taking up to twenty hours. A large within the archive which resides on be reduced because FileStore
element of the council’s paper lower cost media. A stub or pointer does not require archived data to
documents and incoming replaces data removed from the be frequently backed up. The
correspondence is now scanned and primary store so that end users are software is able to simultaneously
stored electronically and many of its automatically directed to the archive hold multiple copies of the archive
services are now delivered via the when accessing files that have been in multiple locations.
Dark about data dedupe?
According to a recent survey, the solutions.
majority of UK businesses are not
employing data deduplication despite Kevin Moreau, general manager of
its clear benefits. 91% of the 105 IT Acronis UK & Ireland, said: “Data
resellers surveyed recently by deduplication is currently a hot topic
Acronis state that less than half of in the storage industry, but many
their customers are employing customers feel like it is out of their
deduplication, with two thirds (62%) reach. It can cut storage enough about deduplication to
stating that the minority (under 10%) requirements by up to 90% by deploy the technology, there is
of their customers are using the eliminating replicate files or identical also a clear need for the market
technology. blocks of data, therefore dramatically to educate end users about the
reducing costs. However, cost, and storage savings it can
A third see the cost of deduplication deduplication is often perceived as bring to an organisation. In
as the biggest barrier to entry, while an expensive technology to adopt and addition, deduplication can save
nearly 100% of those questioned implement, reserved for large network bandwidth as the amount
(98%) stated that if deduplication was organisations and usually requiring of data transferred over a network
affordable then their customers additional hardware.” to a target storage location can be
would invest in it, highlighting the cut by 10 to 20 times – especially
misconception surrounding the With over a third of partners stating relevant to SMBs who sometimes
affordability of deduplication that their customers do not know have limited bandwidth.
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