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    Data Growth Now a First-Tier Challenge for Enterprises, Gartner Reports

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    Chris Preimesberger
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    November 1, 2010
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      Most people in IT already have read that researchers believe digital business data to be stored is growing at a 40 to 60 percent clip each year.
      So it makes sense that this explosion in stored files, logs and other data has become one of biggest challenges to solve for large enterprises.
      Gartner Research reported Nov. 1 that nearly half (47 percent) of its survey respondents ranked data growth as one of their three biggest daily challenges. The others are system performance and scalability (37 percent), and network congestion and connectivity architecture (36 percent).
      Hardware and software vendors will be glad to know that data center managers are planning to do something about this stored-data surge. Sixty-two percent of respondents reported that they will be investing in data archiving or retirement initiatives by the end of 2011 to address the problem.
      A data retirement project is one that examines all archived and backed-up data in a system to make sure it gets deleted from all storage nodes when its expiration date comes up. Projects of this nature can take weeks or months.
      In large IT systems, substantial amounts of data often do not get deleted on a regular schedule, despite company policies. This is most often due to multiple backup copies and mirrored systems that get passed over at cleanup time.
      All those extra copies take up valuable space on digital disks or tape that can cost the enterprise dearly over time.
      Other ways IT managers mitigate data growth
      Other high-ranking IT projects that will be employed to address the issue of data growth are data security from internal, external or hacker risk; storage consolidation; storage management tools; and data reduction techniques.
      Gartner’s research was conducted from June to August 2010 with representatives from 1,004 large enterprises from eight countries.
      “While all the top data center hardware infrastructure challenges impact cost to some degree, data growth is particularly associated with increased costs relative to hardware, software, associated maintenance, administration and services,” said Gartner Research Director April Adams.
      “Given that cost containment remains a key focus for most organizations, positioning technologies to show that they are tightly linked to cost containment, in addition to their other benefits, is a promising approach.”
      Countries included in the report “User Survey Analysis: Key Trends Shaping the Future of Data Center Infrastructure Through 2011” were Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom.

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      Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor-in-Chief of eWEEK and responsible for all the publication's coverage. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he has distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.

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