Disaster planning must encompass disasters of all types and sizes not just IT: Natural Disasters , Employee fraud, ransomware and cyber-attacks, power or IT system failure, human error, acts of terror, and other unthinkable scenarios. While the type of disaster varies, the impact is similar: Systems and people are unavailable and downtime occurs. The devastating effect of downtime caused by disaster include irreparable damage to data, reputation, customer relationships, revenue, and business operations.

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Many potential threats exist today as well from system component failures to large-scale storms and disasters ― and from innocent human errors to the intentional destruction of data by people and who were once trusted employees.

Storage Challenges

Data is growing at a tremendous rate and as a result, businesses need increasing storage to accommodate. Many numbers have been published, and while 40% annually is a good estimate, individual workloads and environments may foster much faster growth.

And as data causes your storage to grow and your management complexity to grow, your data protection needs also grow! These costs tend to scale linearly with storage growth, in fact – the cost of the storage itself is only one aspect of a complete solution. This is amplified by increasing regulation impacting data retention policies, secure data handling, and data protection.

The bottom line is that storage TCO is growing for most organizations – driven by both acquisition and operation costs. In fact, the storage business is growing faster than the server business. While the cost-per-TB falls every year, this potential savings is completely dominated by data growth, and many customers report that storage is their fastest growing datacenter cost.