{"id":3847,"date":"2013-07-02T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3847"},"modified":"2013-07-02T07:00:31","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T15:00:31","slug":"storage-rampant-data-duplication-clogs-enterprise-storage-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/storage-rampant-data-duplication-clogs-enterprise-storage-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Storage: Rampant Data Duplication Clogs Enterprise Storage Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Copy Data’ — the storage of duplicated data for safekeeping — \u00a0may be the reason behind 85 percent of all hardware purchases that were made in 2012. \u00a0That’s the conclusion of a report by IDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The report finds that “Maintaining copies of data both locally and geographically and in an online or offline manner is absolutely essential for maintaining service quality. But at some point, this maintenance goes from being an insurance policy to paranoia. IDC expects this paranoia to cost businesses roughly $44 billion in 2013.”<\/p>\n

Ashish Nadkarni<\/a>, analyst at IDC, said that \u00a0“as companies come under increased scrutiny for being compliant, meet regulatory laws and IT departments come under increased pressure to maintain service levels, they are increasingly fueling the ‘human instinct’ of being over-protective of their data. This leads to multiple secondaries copies of data.”<\/p>\n

The IDC report on Copy Data finds that:<\/p>\n