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Multiple primary disks – raided / mirrored

Multiple business continuance volume

business continuance volume snapshots

Replicated volumes

Many generations of backups – onsite and offsite copies

Additional extra copies “tucked away” (i.e. DB dumps)

Backup has this storage problem multiplied exponentially:

Exponential increase in data

Shrinking windows

Hardware costs (prices per TB) are dropping, but are offset by:

The amount of data to be managed (growing at 100% / year)

The escalating cost of managing data

15% for hardware and capital expenditures

75% of costs for management and administration

Heterogeneous environments require diverse staffing expertise and training

Diverse staffing requirement due to increasing complexity and vendor costs