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2008: The Year of the Storage Vendor

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All of the compliance talk – SOX, COBIT, COSO, HIPAA, Section 404 – has overwhelmed organizations of all sizes and has made them more accountable for the data they collect and store. As a result, enterprise data will continue to grow exponentially, upwards of 50 percent a year on average.

If this doesn’t make storage administrators shake in their boots, the exorbitant number of documents that must find a home on cramped disks due to these regulations will. While it may sound extreme, some companies have been required to gather and retain every single fax sent to them over the course of 25 years.

Enterprises throughout the world are trying to control costs and maximize resources. One strategy they’ve deployed is the centralization of IT management, specifically storage management. Additionally, as multiple data centers condense and become more sophisticated, fewer employees are challenged to do more tasks and take on even more responsibilities on a daily basis. Intel is looking to consolidate 133 of its data centers globally into eight high-density facilities in order to reduce costs – and this is just the tip of the iceberg. As more organizations consolidate, the burden is then placed on storage administrators to maximize existing storage resources while accurately planning for future growth.

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