Tags: Hardware Solutions, Technology Industry
By Anna Valmero
MAKATI CITY, METRO MANILA—As data volume in business enterprises is predicted to grow by 650 percent over the next five years, IT departments should look into more flexible or fluid data architecture to complement the data boom, according to local official of hardware maker Dell.
“Getting the right information at the right time for the right cost is key to success for all industries from manufacturing, telcos, banking to data providers,” said Richard Teo, president of Dell Philippines.
In fact, data growth for the next two years will be “significantly bigger” than growth over the past decade.
As data grows, demand for data center space is more than doubling every 24 months, which creates rapid infrastructure change such as how information are collated, analyzed or chunked together to give more information to decision makers, according to Teo.
Data is value and six in ten executives surveyed by Dell said they want more information to arrive at a better decision.
But flat IT spending, if not decreased IT budgets pose a serious challenge for managing data, said William Tan, Dell enterprise storage lead for Southeast Asia and Korea.
A rule of thumb is that each terabyte of storage adds $1 million to the company’s budget, according to a Frost and Sullivan researche ntitled, “The Coming Storage Armageddon.”
This is because storage takes up at least 18 percent of total IT infrastructure spending, while labor for the maintenance of storage infrastructure accounts for 60 percent of storage budgets.
“Today’s storage infrastructure is still inefficient, inflexible, complex, growing that loses are incurred when 10 percent of backups and 32 percent of restores both fail,” said Tan.
Organizations of all sizes continue to place a priority on boosting IT asset efficiency while improving IT responsiveness to business pressures.
“Ever greater exploitation of virtualization is a key element in these efforts, and the deployment of flexible and intelligent storage systems is frequently the key to successful efforts,” said Richard Villars, vice president of storage and IT Strategies at IDC in a statement.
To address these data needs, Dell introduced the Fluid data architecture featured in its Compellent storage solutions for virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies with 16Gbps Fibre Channel interoperability and EqualLogic Unified storage for intellectual property in enterprise storage.
The solutions offer 80 percent cost savings with tiered storage and offers 75 percent savings on storage network costs.
Key to the solutions is modular or scalable increase in storage capacity and the use of virtualization to access and separate on-demand data versus data or legacy applications that are as important but rarely accessed by decision makers.
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