Third-Party Storage Surveys Confirm Archiving Issues Faced by VARs and End Users.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif. -- The top three storage issues facing end users are running out of primary storage, long backup windows and retrieval time of archived data, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. results of storage-focused surveys released today by PowerFile Inc., an innovator in archive appliances for permanent storage of digital content and assets. Two third-party archival data surveys - one designed for VARs and the other for end users - queried more than 350 resellers from across industries and storage environments and more than 450 IT staff and storage administrators from a cross section of functions and titles to discover the level of awareness of archival storage problems faced by IT staffs and to find out what current approaches they are using to meet long-term Long-term Three or more years. In the context of accounting, more than 1 year. long-term 1. Of or relating to a gain or loss in the value of a security that has been held over a specific length of time. Compare short-term. archiving requirements. Among the surveys' findings: * The top three end user storage issues in both polls included running out of primary storage (79 percent of VARs/50 percent of end users), dealing with long backup windows (77 percent of VARs/62 percent of end users), and having problems with retrieval time of archived data (69 percent of VARs/45 percent of end users). * 80 percent of end users are considering some form of archiving solution as part of their overall storage strategy * 69 percent of VARs responded that compliance and internal retention policies are equally the top drivers for customers' archival solutions. * VARs reported that 72 percent of their customers have had problems with hardware, software or media failure in attempting to recover data, while 55 percent of end users indicated suffering similar failures. * Slightly more than a third of respondents In the context of marketing research, a representative sample drawn from a larger population of people from whom information is collected and used to develop or confirm marketing strategy. of both polls said that fixed content makes up at least half of end users' corporate data. * 91 percent of VARs and 85 percent of end users said they were open to a solution that includes optical components in satisfying long-term archiving requirements. "The results of our recently commissioned surveys are quite revealing in fully understanding the problems faced by end users today in their attempts at archiving mission-critical information and in the way that resellers look to solve those concerns," said Jonathan Buckley, VP of Marketing at PowerFile. "By getting the perspective both from the VARs as well as the end users, we get a more complete picture of new archival storage requirements and are better able to address them through our archive appliance solutions." PowerFile's archive appliances fit well within any enterprise that has adopted an ILM approach in creating storage tiers by enabling a true archive tier with different access and permanence Permanence law of the Medes and Persians Darius’s execution ordinance; an immutable law. [O.T.: Daniel 6:8–9] leopard’s spots there always, as evilness with evil men. [O.T.: Jeremiah 13:23; Br. Lit. requirements. They complement existing storage infrastructure by offloading disk-based primary or near-line systems that are currently used to store fixed content. PowerFile's new Active Archive Appliance (A3) is built from the ground up to offer the longevity longevity (lŏnjĕv`ĭtē), term denoting the length or duration of the life of an animal or plant, often used to indicate an unusually long life. , rapid retrieval and cost efficiency needed for active archiving Moving data to a secondary storage medium that can be readily accessed if required. Active archiving enhances the performance of production databases by eliminating records that are not accessed daily, but may be needed for reference from time to time. of valuable fixed content. An A3 installation time is typically under 20 minutes and presents itself as a standard network share so it works with most archival and information lifecycle management Information Lifecycle Management refers to a wide-ranging set of strategies for administering storage systems on computing devices. Specifically, four categories of storage strategies may be considered under the auspices of ILM. software tools. About PowerFile PowerFile, Inc. is an innovator in online archive solutions designed specifically for long-term storage of fixed digital content. PowerFile's award-winning solutions combine the speed of online access with the economy and integrity of traditional archives to empower empower verb To encourage or provide a person with the means or information to become involved in solving his/her own problems organizations of all sizes to efficiently manage and preserve valuable digital assets. PowerFile product offering consists of intelligent storage management software and cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. , robust hardware. PowerFile is a registered trademark of PowerFile Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective companies. |
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