Big Data to cause problems for Enterprise in 2012

Published December 14th, 2011 | categories include: Cloud Computing | Share on Twitter

Modern data centers are quickly adapting their platforms to cloud-enabled services, mobile computing and high availability operations. According to CommVault, a leading data management provider, Big Data is causing major headaches in Information Technology (IT) Departments. In their annual IT Storage Spending Predictions Survey, CommVault identified problem areas for 2012, which include (1) managing data growth, (2) backup and recovery, (3) disaster recovery, (4) backup of virtual server environments and (5) email/file archiving. With the current shortage of hard drives, causes by flooding in major drive producing countries, maintaining data management standards will be costly.

Fast Facts from IT Storage Spending Predictions Survey

• managing data growth (i.e., data reduction) is the top budget priority for 2012, followed by network and equipment, disaster recovery, applications/software, data backup and recovery and backup of virtual server environments.
• respondents predicted a slight increase in overall IT budgets for 2012. Thirty-two percent of the survey respondents revealed their IT budgets would increase in 2012, while 50 percent stated their budgets would remain unchanged in the coming year. Of that IT budget, 43 percent of those polled reported allocating up to 10 percent for overall data protection, for items such as hardware, software, services/support and media, while another 34 percent planned to spend between 11 and 20 percent of their budget on overall data protection.
• 54 percent reported no expected increases in IT staff for 2012; 16 percent expected an increase and 29 percent remained undecided on increasing their staffing in 2012.
• Fifty-seven percent of the respondents polled came from organizations with between 500 to 10,000 employees, representing a variety of industry sectors, including government, education, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, engineering and retail. Nearly 50 percent of the respondents were responsible for managing 11 to 75 TBs of primary data last year.

What is causing Big Data growth in the industry? Of those surveyed, “adoption of server virtualization as organizations consolidate physical servers in an effort to reduce costs. Eighty-two percent of respondents are managing up to 250 virtual servers today, but an overwhelming 89 percent of respondents expect that number to increase in 2012.”

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