The 10 Biggest Storage Challenges Facing Companies Today

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The 10 Biggest Storage Challenges Facing Companies Today
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It is a generally agreed-upon statistic among storage companies that 70 percent of storage capacity is wasted. In this slide show, eWEEK's Chris Preimesberger reveals some of the biggest storage challenges facing companies today.

By Chris Preimesberger

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The 10 Biggest Storage Challenges Facing Companies Today 1. Effectively utilizing more than 30 percent of available capacity 2. Cutting power and cooling costs 3. Getting a good deduplication strategy into production 4. Getting a good thin-provisioning strategy into production 5. Finding a good way to improve I/O flow 6. Keeping the physical footprint small in the data center 7. Identifying a good e-discovery strategy and getting it into operation 8. Deciding whether to implement online storage as part of an overall strategy 9. When—and with what data—to use low-priority disks or digital tape for archiving 10. Choosing whether to utilize Master Data Management best practices for primary data See More Slide Shows Like this One!

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