IBM White Paper Sample

Organizations are using more and more data. Much of this growth can be attributed to the increasing collection of analytical data, documents, messages, presentations and other unstructured data. Data retention requirements and the need for both backup and disaster recovery plans is causing organizations to face the fact that backup and disaster recovery procedures are time consuming.

s difficult as it is to address the need to maintain backups today, the introduction of virtual servers and virtualized environments is likely to only exacerbate the problem. The proliferation of virtual environments means that there are more sources of data to include in a company’s backup and archival storage plan.

Decision makers must consider the rapid growth of the company’s information assets, the challenges of backing up this data and develop concrete plans to address this issue.