Dave Pistacchio

Business continuity and disaster recovery continue to be top priorities for enterprise IT decision makers. Big or small, data storage is a critical issue impacting every business in every market segment. Most businesses with a critical need for highly robust data storage operate in highly regulated sectors such as financial services, health care, and government. Network downtime is never an option. A survey of 80 large U.S. companies conducted by Infonetics Research last year indicated they had an average of 501 hours of network downtime a year, and this cost them almost 4% of their revenue totaling millions of dollars. It's not very difficult to see that downtime directly translates into dollars, lots of dollars. Businesses trying to survive in today's economic environ... (more)