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This article is part of the Vol. 10 Num. 3 May 2011 issue of Why automated storage tiering is on the rise
More than half of the respondents to our most recent survey are archiving their companies’ email, approximately the same number as when we asked about it nearly two years ago. But nearly 33% of non-archivers say tucking away old email is on their to-do list. The toughest part of email archiving, say 64%, is managing the volume of archived mail. More than 75% are trying to cope with mail volume by imposing mailbox quotas, with an average upper limit of a little more than 1.5 GB, about 20% less generous than in our 2009 survey. Forty-six percent let users do their own archiving using .PST files, while 10% use Exchange Server 2010’s “better-than-PST” archive mailbox feature. In any event, email admins are letting messages mellow longer before archiving: only 37% say mail is archived after 90 days vs. 47% in 2009. Why bother with email archiving at all? Twenty-eight percent claim it’s for legal issues, while 26% use it for capacity management. "We’re focusing on our legal and regulatory requirements, and giving direction on what to keep and what to pitch in ... Access >>>
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Storage budget recovery on a roll
by Rich Castagna, Editorial Director
Data storage budgets are recovering from their recessionary pounding. But while storage managers might have more money to spend, they’ll need yet more capacity to meet new demands.
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Capacity and the law drive email archiving
by Rich Castagna, Editorial Director
In our most recent Snapshot survey, we asked respondents why they were archiving: 28% say they’re doing it for legal issues, while 26% use it for capacity management.
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Storage budget recovery on a roll
by Rich Castagna, Editorial Director
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Blueprint for cloud-based disaster recovery
by Jacob Gsoedl, Contributor
Cloud storage and computing services offer a number of alternatives for cloud-based DR depending on the recovery time and recovery point objectives a company requires.
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Automated storage tiering: Higher performance AND lower cost?
by Phil Goodwin, Contributor
Automated storage tiering is an effective way to make efficient use of installed data storage resources, and to take advantage of the high performance of solid-state storage.
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Blueprint for cloud-based disaster recovery
by Jacob Gsoedl, Contributor
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Reinventing file storage protection and recovery
by Tony Asaro, Contributor
As file data growth surges, traditional backup just won’t cut it anymore; we need some new thinking and an updated approach to replication.
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Every cloud has a green virtual lining
by Rich Castagna, Editorial Director
Buzzwords are taking over the data storage industry, so it’s probably asking way too much of storage vendors to just tell us what their products can -- and can’t -- do.
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Virtualization, cloud shine spotlight on unified storage
by Terri McClure
Unified storage adoption is starting to ramp up as data storage pros see the need for simplifying storage so it can be powered, cooled and managed in one pool.
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Where is the cloud storage market headed?
by Jeff Byrne, Contributor
Break down the cloud storage services market and you’ll find players both big and small jockeying for position in key segments.
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Reinventing file storage protection and recovery
by Tony Asaro, Contributor
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