by Ian Duncan
Research shows that, on average, 75 percent of a company's data on tier 1 storage is fixed digital content, or data that rarely changes and is seldom touched. Maintaining that data on high-priced disk storage dramatically increases storage and power costs.
by Kim Borg
In the ever-growing landscape of data backup and disaster recovery solutions, many mid-sized companies are finding it difficult to keep pace with – and afford – the latest and greatest advances. Luckily, Arkeia Software, a worldwide provider of backup and disaster recovery software and appliances, today announced a simple upgrade that effectively provides source-side Progressive Deduplication for all of their backup appliances shipped since July 2007.
by Dan Leary
Enterprises today face significant IT challenges. Data storage requirements are increasing exponentially. End user expectations for fast, highly available applications continue to rise. Backup and disaster recovery schemes have reached their limits, but budgets for new infrastructure are tight. In a nutshell, enterprise IT is drowning in a fast-rising sea of data and many IT organizations have run out of ways to cost-effectively address their challenges. To rescue themselves, they need a new way to manage data storage.
by Wayne Salpietro
We are a society of information pack rats, constantly
seeking more and more information as a means of protecting our business and our
personal realms. We hold firm to the belief that more is always better, a
conviction that is validated by most research firms, which report that
companies, on average, are dealing with a 50-60% annual data growth rate. This
data growth is further accelerated by the fact that we are also creating more
and more information as we utilize more technology in our daily business lives.
In some industries, such as oil and gas; healthcare; and media and entertainment, huge data files are being created and stored for very long time periods, resulting in enormous data stores. Across all industries, websites are growing geometrically as they become the portal to information about your business and generate increasingly efficient online transactions.
by Chris Wood
Increasingly, organizations of all sizes are leveraging highly economical IT outsourcing services to keep pace with dynamic business growth while addressing continuing budget constraints. By outsourcing all or a portion of their IT requirements to a Managed Services Provider (MSP), companies can often achieve significant economies of scale, elevate operational efficiencies and ensure uninterrupted access to mission-critical data.
