As your business grows and evolves, you're generating more data in more formats than ever before. Not only is data volume increasing, it's also getting distributed across more locations. Physical storage, databases, virtual environments, and the cloud, to name just a few. The sheer amount and breadth of this data makes it difficult to track and nearly impossible to plan for. So you go back to basics relying on native tools, manual processes, and Excel spreadsheets to try and model and predict next year's needs.
The problem is these alternatives are imprecise and not integrated, meaning, they don't talk to one another. That requires even more work on your staff's part to compare, calculate, and estimate anticipated storage and resource needs. The end result, for one, you over or underspend on storage. You also have service level agreements and customer service shortfalls, or could experience stalled or failed migrations.
Perhaps, worst of all, you'll lose the ability to adequately support the big initiatives your organization is counting on you to support. Data growth is devastating your protection status. Not only is your data growing, but your infrastructure to support data is also growing at a faster pace than anyone can keep up with. Infrastructure sprawl is getting out of control.
What if you could ensure that your secondary storage solution keeps up with the accelerating data growth while maintaining the ability to manage your physical and virtual infrastructure from a holistic point of view? When IT leaders know how much data they have, where it resides, how fast it's growing, and how much it's costing, they'll be able to quickly and easily identify ways to manage storage costs now and in the future, regardless of whether it's being stored on premises or in the cloud.
IT teams will also avoid surprises, spend budget only on what's needed, and deliver the right level of service at the right time. Are you ready to learn more about controlling your secondary data growth and achieving a holistic approach to data management? Visit quest.com/dp.