Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly owned
subsidiary of Hitachi recently announced survey results indicating
that India is leading in cloud storage and converged system
adoption in Asia Pacific. The survey results also revealed that
more than 50 percent of the large Asia Pacific enterprises that
participated in the survey are not anticipating or planning for the
advent of “Big Data.”
The survey results are published in an HDS-sponsored IDC white
paper titled “The changing face of storage: A rethink of
strategy that goes beyond the data”. The survey was
conducted by IDC from August to September 2011 with 150 IT
executives from large enterprises in Australia, New Zealand, China,
Hong Kong, India, Malaysia and Singapore. HDS commissioned the
survey to better understand their storage management challenges,
needs and strategies.
"There is a great potential for the information cloud
because it will analyze content independently of applications or
media and enable analytics of Big Data
- Kevin Eggleston, Senior Vice President and GM, Hitachi Data
Systems Asia Pacific
“HDS believes that data and information must be stored,
governed and managed for insight and innovation in order to drive
strategic and competitive value,” said Kevin Eggleston,
senior vice president and general manager, Hitachi Data Systems
Asia Pacific. “Embracing the latest technologies, like cloud
services, not only enables enterprises to manage data growth but
also to collect and connect data to create valuable information.
Our three-tiered strategy of infrastructure cloud, content cloud
and information cloud uses a dynamic infrastructure and enables
fluid content to gain faster and more sophisticated insight and
greater value from stored data.”
The Indian market is the most mature in terms of the adoption of
cloud technologies and the highest usage levels of converged
systems. 50 percent of respondents in India are using or planning
to use cloud storage in the next 6 to 12 months. 30 percent of
respondents in India are using converged systems and 35 percent are
either evaluating or planning to use such systems.
The Indian market responses indicate that the move to more
advanced datacenter architectures is well underway, and the growing
pains are keenly felt. Data management issues due to explosive
growth and new challenges uncovered through the virtualization of
the server platform dominate concerns. However, fundamental issues
such as managing email growth and backup also remained high.
Other key highlights include:
1. Having access to accurate data on a timely basis key
to gain deeper business insight. About 70 percent of
respondents in India stated that the demand of the business for
deeper analysis outpaces the ability for their systems to ensure
the data they had is relevant, timely and useful. Their data growth
is outpacing their ability to effectively manage it.
2. Virtual server sprawl remains a key concern.
70 percent cited problems from virtual server sprawl, as they are
unable to keep a close track of the virtual platform assets and
their alignment to storage.
3. Justifying storage investments is a key challenge as
budgets remain tight. 60 percent cited aligning IT costs
to business budgets and growth as a main challenge to adopting
their IT strategy amid current market conditions.
4. Insufficient backup window a key issue. Due
to the nature of their business, 60 percent of Indian
organizations do not have enough time to back up systems.
5. Managing email is getting more difficult and
expensive. 60 percent of respondents in India cited
concerns over the rising costs in managing email growth.
“Data needs to be shared, compared, analyzed and
visualized more holistically. Only then can data become information
used for insight, trending, and leveraged proactively in
anticipation of things to come,” said Eggleston. “There
is a great potential for the information cloud because it will
analyze content independently of applications or media and enable
analytics of ‘Big Data’ to better align itself to human
behavior for deeper, more relevant insight, driving innovation,
advancing research, enabling better collaboration, and building
more sustainable societies.”
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