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Capacity increases drive demand for data management

computerworld.co.nz

A big company with a large datacentre and a small organisation with only a few servers will take different approaches to storage, but Graham Penn, Asia-Pacific associate vice president for storage research at analyst firm IDC, says when it comes to storage, all organisations, large and small, have one thing in common: demand for it is increasing by 50%-80% each year.

“You’re having to manage more storage and manage that additional capacity,” Penn says. “The increasing demand is overwhelming.”

The problem is being relieved to some extent by new storage media that offer greater value-for-money, he says.

“A terabyte of storage is 30%-40% cheaper that it was a year ago, because of the increasing capacity of disk drives.

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