The volume of data generated and stored by businesses is growing at an uncontrollable rate and companies have invested substantially in IT systems to help manage this growth. The challenge they face is how to manage their data storage infrastructure cost-effectively. More and more businesses are recognising that an effective way to reduce overall IT spend and, more specifically, the high cost of data storage is to outsource the provision of IT services to a third-party supplier. But businesses have become wary of 100 per cent outsourcing contracts under which they lose control of the output and direction of the IT environment. With the explosion of data being led by the need to improve quality of service to customers, enterprises are also striving to ensure that quality and system availability levels remain high across the infrastructure.<\/p>\n
This has prompted businesses to consider the nature of the environment in which data is stored and effectiveness of their recovery systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
As standards become more defined and universally accepted, the rush to storage attached to the network is bound to accelerate.<\/p>\n
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