Danny Milrad, Symantec's Director of Product Marketing, Information Management Group, and Mike Reynolds, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Storage and High Availability Group, took the time to brief me on a "state of the data center" survey Symantec has fielded for a number of years. The results were both interesting and not at all surprising.
The following bullets discuss a few of the results:
The report went on to suggest that C-level executives need to lead data compliance efforts; that IT organizations gain greater visibility into workloads and go beyond just looking at platforms; IT organizations need to better understand their entire portfolio of workloads and IT resources; Reduce the number of backup applications in use and deploy deduplication tools when and wherever possible.
While none of these findings and suggestions are surprising, the study and its recommendations do point out important issues facing IT organizations today.