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| SMEs most prone to data explosion: NetApp study |
| Vinay Umarji / Mumbai/ Ahmedabad Feb 13, 2009, 00:02 IST |
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In an attempt to optimise costs and fight competition, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly investing in data storage and other solutions, states a latest NetApp India and Nielson Company study. Titled as 'Data Explosions in India - Trends and Challenges', the study by NetApp - Nielson, talks about organisations have been spending on software solutions leading to data explosion.
The study took a sample of size of 532 organisations including 94 super large enterprises employing over 1000 professionals, 196 large organisations employing 700-999 people and 242 medium companies with employee strength of 300-699.
"Increasingly, organisations, especially SMEs are investing a lot on data storage and management applications like ERP and business intelligence. Given the competitiveness and slowdown in the market, the enterprises aim at reducing or optimising costs of their operations. However, this has led to tremendous data explosion in these organisations. NetApp aims to redefine how organisations look at their storage and data management solutions," says Surajit Sen, director - channel, alliances and market at NetApp India.
The study states that the data explosion among SMEs has been caused by IT applications and email. The deployment of IT applications such as ERP and CRM has ensured that organisations have to continuously monitor and upscale storage capacity to meet the continuously increasing storage requirements. Also, among chief sources of rapid growth of data, IT applications form 43 per cent, followed by email at 19 per cent.
"There is a clear indication of a planned increase in storage capacity across all organisations interviewed. This increase is mainly seen in organisations who have a current installed storage capacity of less than 500 GB. The sharpest growth, however, is seen in the 6-10 TB segment which expects to see a 10 per cent growth in the market share contribution.
This suggests a need for deploying solutions to optimise storage costs, revisiting and updating storage policies and checking security and access control systems in order to ensure seamless integration and minimal financial impact of the increased capacity," he adds.
While 57 per cent of the medium sized companies have an installed storage capacity of less than 1TB, 49 per cent of large as well as super large companies have an installed capacity between 1TB and 10 TB. In terms of verticals, the pharma sector is expected to see a jump of 7-14 per cent in number of organisations who have storage capacity greater than 10TB by 2009 suggesting a massive upgrade of storage capacities.
The data explosion has also resulted in challenges like maintaining 24x7 access to data and its security. Moreover, the financial impact is tremendous on these organisations, the study states further. Primarily, management of email traffic and maintenance of remote office data backup have a high impact on finances of the company.
Around 87 per cent super large and 86 per cent large organisations as well as 83 per cent medium sized organisations attach similar importance levels to the need to have policies to manage aged data. However, 90 per cent super large organisations show a more pressing need to have software to manage unstructured data as compared to 79 per cent medium sized organisations.
Moreover, according to the study, close to 70 per cent of organisations have implemented data replication software and other solutions to manage storage network.
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