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Company: Symantec
Published: Sept. 2008
Storage and data center managers, in turn, are challenged to find a way to do the impossible - they must exceed increasing demands and service level expectations, while still driving down operational costs and devoting more resources to activities that will enhance business value. The demands on storage and data centers have never been greater. Data volumes are doubling every year, information and applications must be protected and available at all times, and there is no window for downtime.
Despite these challenges, IT budgets and staff levels remain flat - even as IT operated in an environment of nearly unmanageable complexity. Multiple server platforms, storage devices, virtual machines, databases, and applications are in place and each has its own proprietary tools. As such, it is little wonder then, that as much as 70 percent of IT budgets are often spent just to keep this existing environment going.
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