The Digital Data Revolution: Top 5 Storage Predictions for 2016 (Information Age)

3. Some organisations will understand but many will continue to be confused. Inadequate backup and archive strategies will still be commonplace. And who can blame them? Old school backup is easy, it works and requires little thought. The problem is it’s also hideously expensive. Organisations are backing up data that stopped changing months or even years ago. The real prediction here is that people will wake up to the fact that addressing the way they do backup is a way to save money. Reducing the amount of data in the backup window is a quick win. For any organisations with data that’s stopped changing, the golden rule is to get it out of the backup window…