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Virtual data storage 'a growing trend'
Category: Data management
13 May, 2009
Virtual data storage is a growing trend among businesses looking to streamline and improve their data management efficiencies.This is the view of Search Storage, which reported that the attitudes of companies is altering as data volumes continue to increase and firms look for ways to increase storage capacity.
Brian Garrett, technical director of the Enterprise Strategy Group Lab, told Search Storage that in the past, many firms have "not [been] comfortable with a machine just automating and assigning these expensive resources and possibly introducing a risk of doing something wrong".
However, times have changed and many businesses are now embracing automated virtualisation as the way forward.
Meanwhile, InfoStor recently reported that tiered data storage solutions offer businesses the chance to increase server efficiency.
By classifying data to different servers, the most commonly accessed files can all be stored in one area meaning that energy consumption can be reduced by stopping drives that are used infrequently.
