Data volumes are growing - a fact we all appreciate as compound data growth doubles year on year. Adding to the impact of this increase are business practises that require companies to store data for longer such as data mining, trend analysis and regulatory compliance.

As disc space becomes a commodity with costs plummeting companies frequently turn to a short term solution by purchasing more hardware. On the face of it, this would seem to be a cost effective cure to a common complaint, but the cost of managing this mounting hardware is too often overlooked. Indeed, as power costs rise and space comes at a premium this cost can outweigh the value of the data.

Industry analysts say that for every £1 we spend on hardware an additional £9 is spent on managing it throughout its lifecycle.

The real issue that needs to be addressed is when the data was last accessed. Statistics have shown that 50/70% of what is backed up will not have been accessed in the preceding 6 weeks.

Our team will show you how to automate the process of moving data to a storage that corresponds to its access needs and inherent value, by doing so we can decrease your backup window and reduce your running costs.