Tuesday 12 February 2013

Data Storage Upgrades Prove Disruptive to SMBs

Managing the storage lifecycle due to staggering data growth is a significant challenge for IT administrators, according to a study on the top IT pain points impacting today’s midmarket enterprises from software-defined storage solutions specialist Gridstore. The survey indicated that during a major storage upgrade more than half (55 percent) of midmarket enterprises experienced business and end-user disruption while 32 percent experienced failed upgrade process where migrations didn’t complete and 9 percent lost data or access to data during the migration. When asked what their top challenges are today, the survey respondents commented that keeping it cost effective, responsive and adequate for growing businesses needs, backing up vast amounts of data, catching up with the growth of data and the expense to do that and hitting capacity limits too quickly were their top concerns.

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