According to a new survey by ILM Audit 2007, data archiving and disaster recovery are likely to lead the storage related IT concerns for 2008.  The Audit reveals that IT departments top five storage related concerns are:

1. Disaster Recovery
2. File Archiving
3. Email Archiving
4. Data Backup
5. Database Archiving

59% percent of IT departments credit Disaster Recovery as their top concern for data storage related considerations.  The report further announced that 84% of IT executives stated that storage vendors should be doing more to improve the energy efficiency of their products. The issue brings us the “green” storage topic which is expected to gain even larger ground in 2008 and beyond.

In addition to the top 5 storage concerns were: Continuous Data Protection, Encryption of Archived Data, Storage Management/ILM, Storage Resource Management, and Secondary Storage Consolidation.

According to the report, the proportion of companies holding over 1TB on primary storage has increased from 59% in 2006 to 73% in the 2007 ILM Audit. And at the top end, one in five (21%) of all companies are now holding over 10TB of data on primary storage. But the research also reveals that between 30 to 50 percent of data held on primary storage is inactive and unlikely to be accessed again.

When asked what factors are driving interest in data archiving, the top issue highlighted by the survey sample was disaster recovery followed by regulatory compliance and data growth.

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