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Larger Australian organisations aren't getting the best from their investments in storage and are struggling to achieve their own goals, according to a new survey.
Whenever you see a piece of vendor-sponsored research it is appropriate to be sceptical. But if vendors don't find the money for such exercises, who will?
So when Symantec - a provider of storage management software - presents figures showing that Australian organisations are struggling to meet storage goals, it doesn't necessarily mean that the answers can be written off.
What did the Symantec survey find?
Almost all respondents said they could achieve better storage utilisation, but less than half were using tools to help achieve that goal.
Despite that acknowledgement, almost three-quarters of respondents expect to purchase as much or more storage during 2009 as they did in 2008.
Fortunately, around half are also expecting their storage budgets to increase within two years.
So how bad are current levels of utilisation? About a quarter described them as "a disaster" or that they "struggled to utilise the storage they had."
Email seems to be a particular target of storage management, with 53 percent of respondents getting a moderate to significant improvement through email archiving, and 41 percent through single instancing of mail and backup.
"This research clearly identifies the risks and challenges confronting Australian organisations in implementing and managing storage," said Craig Scroggie, vice president and managing director, Symantec Australia and New Zealand.
"The pressure is growing on IT teams to reduce costs whilst managing increasingly complex data centre operations due to consolidation, virtualisation and exploding data volumes. These changes have enabled IT teams to refocus their efforts on getting the best from and extending the life of existing storage resources."
Market research firm Bread & Butter Research and Strategy polled 251 IT managers and team members. Respondents worked for government and enterprise organisations with at least 200 staff in Australia. Their average expenditure on storage during 2008 was more than $A475,000.
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