As a result companies are adopting a more strategic approach as they recognise that contingency to guarantee a robust and reliable IT infrastructure is critical. This is because they have neglected to make long-term plans which take into account the speed at which technology develops and changing market forces. Businesses are finding themselves locked into vendor relationships that fail to offer cost-efficient solutions for the long-term management of escalating volumes of data.
It is important to recognise that an effective managed business function is achieved through assessment, planning, execution and evolution. Through the adoption of a long-term strategy and the effective forward planning of data management, an enterprise can make more efficient use of existing capacity and have greater control over the movement and location of data.
For example, as it’s been estimated that approximately 65% of online data is rarely accessed, businesses should look to free up online resources for more core business applications.
The effective management and control of a comprehensive back-up solution is critical to minimising business risk, but companies are failing to make thorough disaster recovery plans or are adopting inefficient processes. It is vital in the current corporate environment, to ensure that a partner has a reliable support infrastructure, suitably skilled personnel and can guarantee levels of service. Failure to meet any of these critical elements will threaten the success of a managed services approach.
As standards become more defined and universally accepted, the rush to storage attached to the network is bound to accelerate.
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