FIRMS SPEND ON EXTERNAL STORAGE
FOR DISASTER RECOVERY
INFOTECH - IT Supplement of TODAY Newspapers (Vol. 1 No. 23)
Companies in the region placing emphasis on the importance of
preserving their information, had brought the Asia-Pacific external
storage revenues to US$1.175 billion or S$2.06 billion last
year.
Because maintaining information availability, integrity and
security has become a major issue for organizations here, storage
is forming one of the most important infrastructure-buying criteria
across many parts of the region, according to research and advisory
firm, Gartner.
An organizations continue to review their disaster recovery
and business continuity, they are looking for ways to ensure
the integrity and security of their information, said Mr Phil
Sargeant, research director for servers and storage for the
Asia-Pacific Computing Platforms Group.
"Mechanisms
such as data replication were seen as ways of addressing these
issues," he said. "Data replication requirements, whether the
information was replicated locally, remotely or both, was one
factor that drove storage capacity needs in the Asia-Pacific
region in 2002.
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