Businesses spend billions disaster recovery
Monday, September 8, 2008
Worldwide sales in external storage devices used to protect companies against data loss in the event of system failure exceeded $5.1 billion in the second quarter of this year, IDC has claimed.
According to the network security analyst's Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker, offsite devices contributed to total disk systems market revenue of $6.9 billion, up 10.9 per cent from last year.
"The ability of vendors to meet a variety of needs among customers with a diversity of storage products and initiatives led to solid growth across all installation environments," the company said in a statement.
In other developments, data storage analysts Compellent have recently announced that one financial firm has been able to reduce data center energy footprints by one third by adopting more scalable virtual offsite storage solutions.
The company urged businesses to embrace virtualization as a way to reduce costs and simplify IT management both on and offsite.
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