The problem of unstructured file-based data looms
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large into the future
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Tarmin Technologies’s recent survey “Despite today’s economic combine a number of technologies
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of key Information Technology (IT) turbulence, storage capacity such as active archival, ILM, and
decision makers reveals that 66 continues to grow exponentially,” policy-based storage automation,
percent of the respondents see their said Eric Herzog, vice president of make any company’s storage
2009 budgets as flat to declining. marketing and sales at Tarmin. “This operations much more cost
However, storage capacity needs will study shows that solutions that effective, efficient, and
continue to increase, with 73 percent reduce storage capital and environmentally responsible and
seeing these grow at a minimum of operational expenditure meet the will see substantially increased
30 percent per year and 17 percent of needs of both the budget holders and demand throughout 2009 and
this group expecting capacity IT managers. Products that into 2010.”
requirements to rise by at least 50
percent per year.
These figures alone show that in
2009 there will be an unquestionable
need to maximise existing storage
resources and strategies to minimise
purchase of expensive capacity.
Although the IT infrastructure
includes a range of applications,
platforms, technologies and separate
environments, the impact of the
forecast storage growth on IT
budgets is certainly going to be
significant, with 48 percent of
respondents saying that storage
makes up over 20 percent of their
total IT budget.
The survey results also showed:
circle6 59 percent see unstructured data
as the number one cause of capacity
growth
circle6 55 percent reported primary
storage as their largest area of
capacity expansion
circle6 54 percent would like to have
immediate cost savings in storage
capital and operation expenditures
circle6 68 percent are developing an
official Green IT strategy
circle6 94 percent consider Green IT to
either be directly linked to cost
savings or both cost savings and an
environmentally friendly strategy
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