{"id":3251,"date":"2012-09-20T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T15:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3251"},"modified":"2012-09-20T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T15:00:18","slug":"storage-it-fights-back-to-stlow-explosive-storage-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/storage-it-fights-back-to-stlow-explosive-storage-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"Storage: IT Fights Back to Slow Explosive Storage Demands"},"content":{"rendered":"

Technologies like business analytics and Big Data are increasing the amounts of data that business need to store. For example, Syed Masroor<\/a>,\u00a0Head of technology and solutions at NetApp India, recently told ComputerWorld<\/a> that Netapp\u00a0has always “firmly believed that the entire datacentre will revolve around the storage system<\/em>. And we are right today.”<\/p>\n

But heavy demand for increasingly more storage is putting a high stress on IT budgets. \u00a0In order to allocate more storage, businesses are being forced to spend more money on new storage. \u00a0And that in turn is forcing IT managers to be more creative in utilizing existing resources.<\/p>\n

The main tactic being deployed by IT managers is more efficient utilization of existing storage. \u00a0The top three tools being used by IT managers include:<\/p>\n