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RETIRED CONTENT
Please note that the content on this page is retired. This content is not maintained and may contain information or links that are out of date.All enterprises are struggling with storage growth. Most have responded by constantly adding more disk-based storage. This "heroin to the addicts" approach will inevitably fail. The vendor-promised approach – Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) – is still more of a marketing concept than product or approach. IT managers must attack the exponential growth rate of storage where the problem is most acute: network shares.
The Culprits: E-mail and File Shares
A common response to the rapid growth of information is to buy more storage. Disk is cheap. Unfortunately, storage management is very expensive. Storage growth leads to a wide variety of IT problems. The most common include:
- Decreased backup windows.
- Litigation and compliance risks due to unmanaged content.
- Increased operational costs.
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