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Warner Music Group had over 40 terabytes of data consisting of millions of files ranging from digital music files to artwork for CDs. In addition, storage growth rates were accelerating dramatically with the skyrocketing popularity of digital music and internet download sites, exacerbating the problems already facing the IT organization. Implementing ARX allowed a 560% improvement in business workflow, 20% reduction is disk spend, and more than 100% storage capacity growth without downtime
environment and implemented an automated Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) strategy that slashed backup times and storage costs. Backup times were cut from 18 hours to 1.5 hours.
Warner Music Group had over 40 terabytes of data consisting of millions of files ranging from digital music files to artwork for CDs. In addition, storage growth rates were accelerating dramatically with the skyrocketing popularity of digital music and internet download sites, exacerbating the problems already facing the IT organisation.
Implementing ARX allowed a 560% improvement in business workflow, 20% reduction is
disk spend, and more than 100% storage capacity growth without downtime.
SNS: What is the likely outcome if a business continues to ignore the benefits of tiering?
TF: The likely outcome for any customer who ignores this is the constant increase in expenditure in storage and backup infrastructure and management.
The question to ask yourself is ‘If I have 10TB today and I’m trending at 100% CAGR, how will I manage 20TB next year, 40TB the year after etc?’.
The key to addressing the problem is finding the solution that makes a step change in
increasing manageability rather than deploy with the ‘business as usual and hope that something changes’ method.
SNS: In summary, can end
users afford to ignore the benefits of storage tiering any longer?
TF: If you are prepared to
continually throw an unlimited amount of money at solving your file storage growth, there is no need to consider tiering. However, our experience with the world’s leading banks, pharmaceutical, manufacturing, civil and electronic engineering firms tells us that there is a compelling need to consider tiering.
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