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Published: 18 Oct 2012
Integrating virtual servers and desktops with storage

This article is part of the Vol. 9 Num. 7 October 2010 issue of Integrating virtual servers and desktops with storage

The flurry of storage vendor mergers and acquisitions is changing the landscape. Some of the deals make sense, some are hard to figure out and some will be outright disasters. What does all of this mean to you? Backup has never been much fun and with IT shops typically doubling their disk capacity every couple of years, there's little light at the end of the backup tunnel. Considering the magnitude of the responsibility and the sheer number of things that can go wrong, it's remarkable that only 33% of the respondents to our survey cited failed backups as their biggest headache. But the amount of data they have to wade through is definitely a sore point, with 58% saying their biggest struggle is meeting new capacity requirements. Toward that end, 38% are currently using data deduplication, while 44% are seriously evaluating it. If space is one dimension that's vexing backup administrators, time is another: 46% say it takes too long to complete their backups and 44% note the same about data recoveries. Adding disk to the backup mix has helped to ease some ... Access >>>

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