What are the storage priorities for CIOs, especially during the current
downturn?
Most enterprises have over capacitized their storage and have very poor
storage utilization rates. So, CIOs need to free up these capacities first by
adopting technologies such as storage virtualization, thin provisioning, and
data de-duplication. Savings achieved by deploying these technologies translates
directly in the bottomlines, giving CIOs the edge to justify and better
negotiate their future storage needs. So now is the time for vision and
leadership to improve storage utilization. CIOs are now on the path to improving
utilization to almost 65-70 percent with the help of technologies such as
virtualization. CIOs who have their house in order and have set benchmarks to
justify their investments are the ones who will emerge successful.
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Hubert Yoshida
VP and CTO, Hitachi Data System |
How high up the curve are Indian enterprises in adopting the latest
storage technologies?
Virtualization and tiered storage are very high on the priority list of
enterprises and many have executed a strategy around them. Even before tiered
storage was getting adopted in India, many enterprises had deployed centralized
enterprise storage and modular storage for different applications. Now,
companies in the-banking, IT services, and telecom sectors-are the three main
industries where these cutting edge storage technologies are getting implemented
very successfully.
How can storage contribute towards building greener data centers?
At HDS, green encompasses how we build our storage products and components,
distribute them and dispose them. Based on our analysis and reports, storage can
bring in almost 15-17 percent environmental savings.
25 percent of this cost saving comes from waste reduction and improving
utilization; another 20 percent comes from reduction in planned and unplanned
downtimes and this serves as a significant contribution to bottomlines. The
third area of saving, of about 18-20 percent, comes from management efficiency.
Priya Kekre
(Source: DQ)