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 environment can't take this lightly. Infonetics also found that data centers can represent 50% of an IT bu... (more)