Guest Column
The Tipping Point For Managing Archived Data Is Here
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By Jerome M. Wendt, DCIG LLC
One would think that at some point organizations would reach the tipping point for storage consumption and that year-over-year storage capacity growth rates of 30%, 50%, 100% or more would come to an end, or at least slow down. If so, it hasn't occurred yet and, if anything, it shows every sign of continuing for the foreseeable future. Nowhere is this more evident than with the amount of data that companies need to archive and retain.
Even as the amount of production data that companies generate continues to grow, the amount of data that they need to archive and retain is growing at an even faster clip driven by new regulatory and corporate compliance requirements. As enforcement of these laws starts to occur, the question becomes, "How do companies concurrently adapt to the challenges of information growth and regulatory compliance while keeping infrastructure and management costs down and data online, available and protected?"
In previous blog entries I examined how some RAID-based systems have potential pitfalls when protecting tens and hundreds of TBs of data - especially when it comes to deduplicated, archived data. However of equal concern is how do you scale many of these RAID-based storage systems over time while controlling management costs, minimizing risk, preserving the integrity of the data (critical when data is archived!) and still taking advantage of faster, lower cost technologies as they become available? The answer is that often you can not.
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