Unabated Storage Growth Calls For Businesses To Rethink
Can you imagine printing out every email you have ever received or every white paper
you have ever read and placing it in a filing cabinet? Not only would you offend the sensibilities of every dyed in the wool environmentalist but you would also have to consider renting an aircraft hangar to house your cabinets. Data storage is becoming one of the greatest challenges facing the IT industry.Businesses of all sizes are experiencing more rapid data growth than ever before; growth rates of over 100 percent per year are no longer uncommon. Driven by the three key factors of business continuity, regulation and data protection, there is no sign that storage growth will slow down some time soon, and this exponential growth is causing data centre operators to re-evaluate their practices and policies....fast. And it's a headache that companies have identified, and are only too happy to offload, with 39% of global organisations already outsourcing data storage to third parties.
From a data centre operators perspective it's not just the obvious issues of physical space, security and hardware that are focusing the mind. It is estimated that storage accounts for 26% of the overall data centre power budget so unsurprisingly 'doing more with less' is the common mantra. With the average company's storage utilisation running at 50%, it is not difficult to understand why server virtualisation is at the centre of so much activity.
Data Centre operators should also be considering other power and space efficient measures such as de-duplication and compression (potential yield of 20-to-1 reduction in storage needs by storing only the differences between old and new copies). MAID (massive array of idle disks) spins up a drive only when data is required from it increasing the storage density, whilst decreasing the cost, electrical power usage, and cooling requirements. Information life-cycle management allows moving data to less-expensive systems as it becomes less important, it can be used to align the business worth of information with the most suitable and cost efficient IT infrastructure. Perhaps the most simple of all, implement regular monitoring and good housekeeping to determine when disks are full.
What is certain is that no single fix to this issue is available; it requires a blend of solutions and a strategy. We all know the costs to our businesses if we lose data, we now need to understand and effectively manage the costs of keeping it.
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