According to an audience response survey taken by approximately a hundred of the 350 attendees, reclassifying data and working out the return on investment were the hardest aspects of a tiered storage project.
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Close to 40% of the users surveyed said that they were committed to developing a tiered storage plan now; 30% said they were already in production with a tiered architecture; and the remaining 30% said they were considering it but were not quite convinced.
Over 60% of respondents said that they had implemented two or three tiers of storage; 21.4% had built four tiers; 7.1% had built five; 3.6% had build six or more tiers and an equal number had just one tier.
Managing the explosive growth of unstructured files was the biggest motivator for moving to tiered storage; e-mail came next, followed by databases.
Data archiving
At least half the respondents are working on an archiving strategy alongside their tiered storage project. But 44% of those surveyed said they weren't sure what data should be archived or for how long, while 33% said that they know what needs to be saved but haven't figured out the best way to do it.Almost half the respondents said they are in the middle of creating a new policy for archiving; while 36% said that they didn't know if their company had a formal archiving policy. Roughly 30% said that they were budgeting for compliance, which would include an archiving component.