FUTURE
STORAGE
The pressure on storage
resources within the
enterprise has never
been greater, with the IT
department having to handle
unprecedented growth
in both structured and
unstructured data storage.
Regulatory changes
on both sides of the
Atlantic have made it
harder than ever for
companies to effectively
manage unstructured
data, as businesses
look to retain far more
email and document
data electronically
than would have been
retained five years
ago. In fact, most
companies are still
practicing the ‘keep
everything’ approach to
compliance.
While such an
unstructured approach
to storage is great
news for those
selling storage, for
the end user and the
IT department, it is a
strategy that simply
amplifies the problem
of finding the piece of
data you need within
the pile, regardless of
whether or not keeping
everything does indeed
tackle compliance
concerns.
There is also pressure
from data formats
traditionally not
associated with
the workplace –
audio, video, image
files, web site designs,
animations – these
are just a few examples
of the sorts of files that
have previously been
the domain of
consumers of specialist
business users
only. Now they are
commonplace, and
the IT department is
expected to store them,
retain them
long term and be
able to recover them in
the event of an accident
or IT disaster.
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Interview
Simon Brassington, HP’s
UK enterprise storage
product manager, talks to
us about the latest storage
innovations coming out of
the company and about how
the requirements of storage
customers are changing in
order to address compliance,
video and the growth
in unstructured data.
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