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Storage: IT Fights Back to Slow Explosive Storage Demands
Technologies like business analytics and Big Data are increasing the amounts of data that business need to store. For example, Syed Masroor, Head of technology and solutions at NetApp India, recently told ComputerWorld that Netapp has always “firmly believed that the entire datacentre will revolve around the storage system. And we are right today.”
But heavy demand for increasingly more storage is putting a high stress on IT budgets. In order to allocate more storage, businesses are being forced to spend more money on new storage. And that in turn is forcing IT managers to be more creative in utilizing existing resources.
The main tactic being deployed by IT managers is more efficient utilization of existing storage. The top three tools being used by IT managers include:
- Data compression
- Deduplication, and
- Storage Virtualization
Natalya Yezhkova, research director, Storage Systems at IDC, said that our “research shows that the increased use of storage efficiency technologies is one of the major contributing factors in the slowdown of storage capacity shipments over the past 12 months. As awareness of these technologies increases, storage vendors should be ready to deliver a variety of technologies to the whole spectrum of customers, from large businesses all the way down to small companies.”
