Monday, June 3, 2013

Copying grows along with data, driving attempts to rein it in

All that new data flowing into enterprises can bring along an expensive partner: multiple copies.

For better or worse, many types of data are copied multiple times for multiple purposes, including backup, archiving and development work, according to IDC analysts Ashish Nadkarni and Laura DuBois. And once created, those extra bits usually hang around.

“We’re really a pack-rat society,” DuBois said. “Deletion of data is not really a concept that’s frequently practiced.”

Duplicate data

Bryon Bua, vice president and enterprise technology manager at Admirals Bank in Providence, Rhode Island, has seen that problem firsthand. Before the bank adopted a copy management system throughout its infrastructure, individual departments increased the storage load without really thinking about it.

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Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2040656/copying-grows-along-with-data-driving-attempts-to-rein-it-in.html#tk.rss_all

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