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Approaching The Storage Challenge
According to a cross section of industry sources it is estimated that:
- Structured data is growing at 30 - 40 percent
- Unstructured data is growing at 65 percent – 200 percent (e-mail, word documents etc)
- Unstructured data has been estimated to be as high as 85 percent of all data
- Unstructured data is typically over 50 percent of storage capacity
The real problem with these rates of growth is not cost of hardware, but more the problem of data and supporting infrastructure management together with power and cooling costs.
Read more about technologies and approaches to maximising storage efficiency here. Such as de-duplication, ILM and thin provisioning.
Finding Information
Current organisational storage structures are complex, particularly those resulting from mergers and acquisitions. Hence, business data is often stored on different storage silos.
Files can reside on NAS or can be archived; emails can be stored on separate storage, which can increase the difficulty of efficiently locating critical information. With unstructured file data growth as fast as we've seen above, the ability to find information isn't getting any easier.
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 Backup to Disk or Tape?
Like many things in IT history has a way of reinventing itself. Backup solutions are no exception. We've embraced tape backup while disk storage was limited and expensive. In more recent times the move has been towards disk backup.
However, is such a polarised approach the right one?
Click here to read more about combined backup approaches to save money and power.
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