2The 10 Biggest Storage Challenges Facing Companies Today – 1. Effectively utilizing more than 30 percent of available capacity
Sun Microsystems did some research among its customers and found that clearly 70 percent of storage capacity is wasted. This is a generally agreed-upon statistic among storage companies.
3The 10 Biggest Storage Challenges Facing Companies Today – 2. Cutting power and cooling costs
This is considered the No. 1 problem by everybody who thinks utilization is No. 2.
4The 10 Biggest Storage Challenges Facing Companies Today – 3. Getting a good deduplication strategy into production
Redundant data slows down systems and costs money on the bottom line, and not enough companies are using deduplication yet.
5The 10 Biggest Storage Challenges Facing Companies Today – 4. Getting a good thin-provisioning strategy into production
Applications need the storage space they need to run effectively, and no more.
6The 10 Biggest Storage Challenges Facing Companies Today – 5. Finding a good way to improve I/O flow
A couple of new companies, Xsigo and InovaWave, have come up with ways to virtualize I/O and open up that former bottleneck in the data center.
7The 10 Biggest Storage Challenges Facing Companies Today – 6. Keeping the physical footprint small in the data center
Many companies tend to just keep adding boxes and racks in their data centers as their data store grows, so the limitation of physical space is a continuous problem. Virtualization and more powerful appliances help assuage this issue for a while.
8The 10 Biggest Storage Challenges Facing Companies Today – 7. Identifying a good e-discovery strategy and getting it into operation
New federal court rules require that organizations pay more attention to how they store and archive business-related documents in case of litigation. This includes virtually everything: e-mail, spreadsheets, word documents, photos, audio, movies–even ins
9The 10 Biggest Storage Challenges Facing Companies Today – 8. Deciding whether to implement online storage as part of an overall strategy
Online storage can be very cost- and labor-effective, but companies must decide if they want to trust their family jewels with an outside service.
10The 10 Biggest Storage Challenges Facing Companies Today – 9. When and with what data to use low-priority disks or digital tape for archiving
This media is used for data that probably wont see the light of day again, except in a legal emergency.
11The 10 Biggest Storage Challenges Facing Companies Today – 10. Choosing whether to utilize Master Data Management best practices for primary data
An MDM platform offers a consolidated view of a companys data assets and a consistent way of aggregating and distributing the data, which has been proven to accelerate processes, projects and products through their various channels.
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