European firms are lagging behind US companies when it comes to
storage virtualisation, says
ONStor.
Research commissioned in the US and Europe by the storage firm
shows that the majority of businesses surveyed in both regions
believe their existing storage solutions will only be able to scale
for the next one to two years.
Customers are often faced with insurmountable amounts of data
stored on a variety of disparate storage resources, which
highlights the need for a centralised, virtualised storage solution
that is easy to manage, said ONStor.
These solutions allow storage administrators to identify,
provide and manage disparate storage as a single aggregated
resource.
In addition, storage virtualisation allows storage resources to
be altered and updated on the fly without disrupting application
performance, generally reducing storage downtime for repairs and
maintenance.
While it has been widely recognised that storage virtualisation
is the best way to provide a flexible and scalable storage
environment, only 27% of European respondents are actually
implementing storage virtualisation today, compared with 35% in the
US, ONStor said.
The research found that 73% of US respondents operate a
virtualised server environment, and 67% are considering deploying
virtualised storage in their datacentres.
Bob Miller, ONStor CEO, said effective storage virtualisation
delivers simplified management, improved usage and high-end
features, as well as reduced costs.
"Customers already adopting a virtualised storage strategy are
fast realising the benefits of reduced operational costs and
improved data availability," he said.
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