Friday September 11, 2009
Symantec offers way to trim storage fat in datacentres
PETALING JAYA: Enterprise datacentres suffer from storage obesity and must be trimmed down to save cost, as well as make IT services more efficient, said software and services giant Symantec Corp.
“Studies by (research company) Gartner show that storage costs have been increasing exponentially over the last five years while overall IT budgets have only marginally increased,” said Ong Kah Wooi, technical consultant manager in the pre-sales division of Symantec Malaysia.
“Our own studies show that storage utilisation in Malaysian companies is around 45% and that these businesses are just buying storage infrastructure that they do not actually need.”
Symantec believes that the best strategy to combat the so-called storage fat is to optimise a company’s network system using a process known as “deduplication.”
“Deduplication is the process of making datacentre storage more efficient by centralising common files, erasing duplicate backup saves, and archiving files that have been idle for long periods,” said Koh Ee Laine, senior technical consultant in Symantec Malaysia’s pre-sales division.
To this end, Symantec offers various types of software, such as Enterprise Vault (for archiving), NetBackup (for backups) and Pure Disk for the deduplication of virtualised machines.
It also announced that next year it will offer a software package that includes all three versions of those products and some extra features. The package is called Backup Exec 2010.
According to IDC, Symantec had a 45% market share in the Malaysian data storage segment last year, and a 25% share of the local security software market that same year.
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