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FIGURE 1. STORAGE ENVIRONMENT CHALLENGES

Source: Enterprise Strategy Group, 2008

Best-of-Breed vs. Single Source

Protecting and managing all of this data is not easy. As already established, businesses depend on it, there’s a

lot of it, it’s often distributed, it may be structured or unstructured, it may reside in physical or virtual

environments, users need access to it nearly all of the time, and sometimes there are restrictions pertaining to

who has access to it and how long it is retained. What’s needed are data management solutions that can meet

today’s everyday challenges, while still being flexible enough to adapt to the environmental changes and shifting

business priorities of the future. And it would be a bonus if whatever solutions addressed existing problems

didn’t trigger new ones, such as complexity or increased costs, in the process.

End-users often lean toward best-of-breed capabilities to solve data management issues. This may mean

procuring, installing, and managing multiple point solutions from a variety of vendors, which, in turn, may mean

additional complexity, greater management overhead, and issues of compatibility and interoperability.

On the other hand, by implementing integrated data management solutions from a single vendor, organizations

can significantly decrease complexity and reduce capital and management/administrative costs. As such,

organizations have shown significant interest in single-vendor solutions. For example, ESG research found that

80% percent of respondents were more likely to standardize on one vendor for all aspects of the data protection

process rather than implement best-of-breed solutions from multiple vendors (see Figure 2).

Source: ESG Research Report, Data Protection Market Trends, January 2008.

13%

14%

15%

17%

18%

22%

24%

26%

30%

31%

33%

38%

0% 20% 40%

Poor service and support from vendor(s)

Meeting e-discovery demands (i.e., litigation support)

Poor search tools/general difficulty finding relevant …

General complexity of managing external storage …

Power and cooling costs

Meeting regulatory compliance requirements

Poor storage utilization

Lack of qualified IT staff and/or skills

Supporting storage and data protection …

Rapid growth in unstructured, file-based content

Storage requirements/complexity related to specific …

General increase in complexity of IT environment, …

Insufficient capital budget

Running out of physical space

Keeping pace with overall data growth

Storage system costs

Need to improve backup and recovery processes

In general, what are your organization's greatest challenges with respect to

its storage environment? (Percent of respondents, N=516, multiple

responses accepted)

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