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Data storage word of the day: Zettabyte
First, a vocabulary lesson: a zettabyte is a unit equal to one billion terabytes. It seems like an unfathomable size, but IDC predicted in a recent study that by the end of the decade, our digital universe will be 44 times larger than it is now, with approximately 35 zettabytes of virtual data needing management by 2020.
While current IT strategies can manage today's digital universe, many of these practices and solutions won't be up to the challenge of solving the problems that will face the next generation of IT managers--problems that include data backup and disaster recovery. Sooner than we might like, the current rules and solutions will no longer suffice.
We're seeing a trend today in which companies look to storage virtualization to provide increased space for growing data loads. It's a step in the right direction, but simply consolidating data into an expandable, virtual pool of storage is not enough. Organizations need to automate all aspects of management related to data protection--including backup, recovery, replication, and snapshots--in order to be fully prepared in the event data restore and disaster recovery solutions need to be deployed.
While current IT strategies can manage today's digital universe, many of these practices and solutions won't be up to the challenge of solving the problems that will face the next generation of IT managers--problems that include data backup and disaster recovery. Sooner than we might like, the current rules and solutions will no longer suffice.
We're seeing a trend today in which companies look to storage virtualization to provide increased space for growing data loads. It's a step in the right direction, but simply consolidating data into an expandable, virtual pool of storage is not enough. Organizations need to automate all aspects of management related to data protection--including backup, recovery, replication, and snapshots--in order to be fully prepared in the event data restore and disaster recovery solutions need to be deployed.
