IT Analyst Forrester Warns Data Explosion Is Increasing the Compliance Gap
IT Analyst Forrester Warns Data Explosion Is Increasing the Compliance Gap
Date: Monday 25 August 2008
Author: PHILIP ALSOP
Store and forget attitude costs millions as demand for access to historical data grows and business risk increases.
According to a new report by analysts Forrester Research, businesses
are exposing themselves to increasing operational risk and "costs
because of inadequate database archiving strategies."
"Report highlights include:
· 50% annual growth is reported in online transactional data and repositories
· 27% of enterprises surveyed have 50 or more terabyte production databases
· 64% of enterprises surveyed have over half of their databases on costly tier 1 storage
· 20% of data centre infrastructure spend is to support data growth
In the report"
