Fast, cheap and under control
HP Labs introduces sparse indexing to radically improve data backup for small and medium-sized businesses.
Most of us are pretty bad at backing up our home PCs, but it’s easy enough to do. We can just copy our whole hard drive to a second, back-up drive.
Enterprises face a vastly greater task, but know the value of their data. They’ll willingly pay large sums for complex, automated data back-up systems - services that employ a technique called deduplication to make sure that only fresh data is recorded every time a backup is made.
Caught in the middle, though, are small and medium businesses (SMBs). They don’t have huge IT budgets, and yet are generating ever larger volumes of data. And, increasingly, that data is both vital to their operations and contains information they need to be able to retrieve with relative ease.
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An uncertain economy is shrinking budgets and technology leaders are faced with hard decisions: Where do you cut? Where do you spend? How do you get the most from what you have?
The choices you make today will help determine whether your enterprise emerges from this downturn lean and competitive or emaciated and weak—a winner or a loser.
HP recommends you adopt three strategies that can help you cut costs and conserve cash in the short-term, while building competitive advantage for the long-term:
Standardize, optimize and automate. Achieve short-term gains; enhance efficiency and lower costs through infrastructure modernization.
Use flexible sourcing. Keep critical projects alive and align technology costs to use through outsourcing, financing, pay-per-use and cloud computing.
Prioritize to meet your new business imperatives. Align technology investments to business value by using a common methodology and set of tools.
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