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Storage: Storage Backups Result in Business Disruptions
Businesses of all kinds are growing ever more data centric. And as a result, they are collecting ever more and more data.
59 percent of IT executives report feeling the pain of supporting massive amounts of data within their organizations.
Backups of the data is causing havoc with routine IT activities and putting a burden on the IT resources, eating up bandwidth,
and interfering with systems and network activities. 93 percent of those surveyed say that the problem is only growing worse.
The volumes of data being backed up is only increasing.
For 37 percent of organizations, it is taking more than nine hours to do a backup on their primary data. And 9 percent
say that it takes more than 12 hours to make primary data backups. And 60 percent say that 30 to 50 percent of the data
captured by primary backups is highly unlikely to ever to accessed again.
Much of the frustration centers around the inability to identify smaller subsets of the data for the backup.
Static or infrequently used data needs should be managed on a different backup schedule than critical and frequently changing information.
The advantages cited for this approach include:
- More efficient backup procedures could free up time of IT personnel (69 percent)
- More efficient backup procedures could put less stress on the use of network and system resources (60 percent)
- Less maintained as active for rapid on-line access would reduce the need to do things like data snapshotting, replication, and mirroring (58 percent)
- Fewer backups would mean less impact on the application environment (45 percent)
How to solve this problem?
Think ILM and Data Archiving.
