VineHall Computing, Inc.

It Pays To Be Prepared

A recent survey shows that 87% of companies expect some storage growth within the next 12 months with more than half of these companies expecting to store up to 50% more data than the amount stored last year.

This annual survey completed by more than 1,000 companies of all sizes and across all sectors provides a comprehensive overview of data backup and recovery technologies and practices. The survey highlights trends in data backup, IT business continuity and IT Disaster Recovery technologies and their usage.

In the current economic climate there is a tendency to cut expenditure wherever possible. Despite the global downturn, it appears that companies are still expecting to see fairly sharp increases in the amount of data that they need to protect, this is set to remain fairly difficult with the rate of data growth and data centres struggling with capacity.

The latest IDC report has found that nearly 300 Exabytes (300 Billion Gigabytes) of information is created globally during the course of a year and while production of digital information is set to continue to increase exponentially and new technologies such as online backup help massively with storage of information, the survey has shown that the majority of companies still rely on old technologies such as DAT tapes to protect their data (32%).

Even with all the advancements made in data storage solutions, backups still take companies a considerable amount of time each day. Look at our Drobo solutions and calculate your storage needs.