Cloud computing ‘can help tackle data management concerns’
October 15, 2010
Cloud computing offerings may help IT departments tackle the various data management challenges they are facing.
According to a recent survey conducted at the Storage Networking World conference, IT professionals list issues such as constrained budgets, data preservation fears and integration worries as among their top data management challenges.
When it comes to fixing these problems, 36 per cent said hybrid cloud solutions could help to make their data centres more efficient, reports Computerworld.
A further 36 per cent selected virtualisation tools as an important data management aid, with about 12 per cent naming deduplication as a useful service in this area.
Earlier this month, Andy Wright, sales director at solutions provider nonstopIT, said the drive to reduce costs is encouraging more businesses to investigate cloud computing solutions.
"More and more people – as they’re slimming down their IT infrastructure and IT support departments – are going to want to put more in the cloud," he stated.