ABSTRACT
Innovation is doing more with what you have or with less while supporting growth without degrading service levels or increasing costs.
– Greg Schulz
• Issues and challenges of an expanding data footprint impact • Business and IT benefits of reducing your data footprint impact • The expanding role and focus of data footprint reduction
This chapter looks at business issues, challenges, and opportunities associated with an expanding data footprint. Key themes, buzzwords, and trends that will be addressed include active and inactive data, archiving, compression, data footprint reduction (DFR), data management, de-duplication, doing more with what you have or with less, primary and secondary storage, RAID and capacity optimization, rates and ratios, space-saving snapshots, storage optimization and efficiency, and storage tiering, along with stretching IT budgets while supporting growth, sustaining business and economic growth in a smaller footprint, and thin provisioning.
