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‘Virtualisation of storage, the ultimate step to maximise ROI’

Three sextillion, 892 quintillion, 179 quadrillion, 868 trillion, 480 billion, 350 million. That’s the number of new digital information bits created in 2008, says John Gantz, Chief Research Officer for IDC. “Contrary to popular belief, as the economy deteriorated in late 2008, the pace of digital information created and transmitted over the Internet, phone networks, and airwaves actually increased.”
A key finding of IDC is that while the pace of digital information increased in 2008, IT (information technology) budgets declined, thus creating an even larger divide between the amount of information generated and the amount of IT resources purchased and deployed to manage it. This dynamic further validates the demand for tools and techniques (e.g. virtualisation, de-duplication and other data reduction technologies) geared specifically to managing more with less, informs a recent communiqué from EMC Corporation, a global player in information infrastructure solutions.
You may wonder if there is the possibility of storage offerings on the pay-for-use model. That is the ultimate goal for every piece of IT today, affirms Mr Prakash Krishnamoorthy, Country Manager, Storage Works Division, Hewlett-Packard India Sales P Ltd, Chennai ( www.hp.com/in ).

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