With virtualisation becoming the buzz word in enterprise IT architecture, the complexity in managing data in the physical and virtual environments has increased significantly. Managing data in IT environment is now turning a nightmare due to steep increase in the unstructured data volumes.
An IDC finding has estimated the data volumes to touch 988 billion Giga Bytes (GB) by 2010 compared with 161 billion GB at present.
How do enterprises manage these growing data volumes?
“Data centres are generally filled with large number of servers that require tremendous investment and time on maintaining them. Server virtualisation would help eliminate large number of physical servers. Similarly, storage virtualisation or creating one virtualised pool of storage across multiple storage systems would help optimise primary disk space utilisation,” explains Shantanu Ghosh, Vice-President, Product Operations, Symantec India.
As end-point users, we would certainly like to access important information and data through any end-point device such as desktop and laptop amongst others. “Symantec was a leader in storage virtualisation. We has moved to the next level to offer endpoint virtualisation or virtualising information by helping our customers protect, manage and secure the information that really matters to them,” Ghosh told Business Line.
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The size of data growth is astonishing! Managing all that information is even more frightening. I did a quick calculation and assuming 1 TB = 2 million files, 988 billion GB of unstructured data equals 1.9 quadrillion files (yep that is 1 +15 0’s). Imagine trying to search or classify all that data for regulatory and compliance requirements. WOW!
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