Migration, deletion, Stockpiling in 2010 bytes

Symantec outlines the storage trends to watch in 2010

As organizations migrate to new Microsoft platforms over the next year, they will need various storage management and data management technologies in place. While upgrading is not always a priority for IT organizations, given tight budgets and the resources needed to manage the process, newer versions can offer significant technological advancements and performance enhancements that can help organizations better meet their SLAs.

This could be termed as a year of migration as per a Symantec'strend watch on storage. As organizations migrate, they will likely make technology improvements across the board to provide improved protection and management that will support all Microsoft applications in the most efficient way. However, it is important that organizations not treat these new applications in a silo manner and apply platform level backup, deduplication, archiving, retention, and E-Discovery solutions. A trusted platform can address both new and old applications in a centralized way.

The company also points 2010 as the 'Year of Deletion'. Next year, enterprise IT administrators will continue to struggle with the continuing growth of information, while budgets continue to lag. The InfoPro says 2010 overall storage spending will improve over 2009, but many respondents are still expecting flat or even decreasing budgets. The last time storage technology kept up with information growth was 2002. In order to keep up, storage admins will need to begin to lose their 'pack rat' mentality and start deleting information. The 'delete' mentality will lead to a shift from using backup as the long term storage location. Backup will return to its intended use and recovery while archiving will step in to manage the long term retention and disposition of information.

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Source: CIOL