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•Guest Column: It's 2009 - That Means It's Time To Recover

By Jerome Wendt, DCIG LLC

There is an abundance of negativity in the market place right now but most companies are still planning to keep their doors open in 2009 and beyond which means they still plan to spend money, albeit more frugally than before. Granted, companies are taking a hard look at every line item in the budget and cutting the fat but that is not necessarily a bad thing. If anything, companies are using this as a time to introduce new technologies to solve long standing business problems and one issue that appears high on their priority list for 2009 is recovery software.

A recent article on CRN's website indicates that 2009 is shaping up as the year where companies put as much if not more emphasis on recovery than they do any other storage technology. Specifically, one graph in the article indicates that VARs and solution providers believe that recovery software solutions will be the number one area of growth in storage technology for 2009. Equally interesting, it also indicated that they expect growth in recovery software to be more than twice that of deduplication technology (59% for recovery software solutions versus 25% for deduplication).

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•Guest Column: It's 2009 - That Means It's Time To Recover