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Sergei Serduyk , VP of Product Management , NAKIVO

SINCE THE VALUE OF A BUSINESS ’ S
DATA DIRECTLY
AFFECTS ITS BOTTOM LINE AND OVERALL
GROWTH
POTENTIAL , THERE ’ S BEEN A GREAT SHIFT
TO MORE AGILE , SCALABLE
AND FLEXIBLE STORAGE
OPTIONS FOR BACKUP IN
RECENT YEARS . their data storage capacity to meet business demands and avoid unnecessary costs .
If a failure or other hardware malfunction hits the primary site , the company can recover backup data from the cloud instantly and resume operation in no time .
Moreover , cloud storage requires no specialised hardware , infrastructure and software as all of these are handled by the cloud provider , allowing SMEs to reduce capital expenditure . Using the cloud for data storage also has some drawbacks , such as higher Internet utilisation along with slow backup and recovery processes depending on Internet connection . However , these disadvantages are offset by all the advantages delivered by the cloud for small businesses looking to save resources and stay competitive .
Maziar Tamadon , Product & Solution Marketing , Scality , offers his insight into how SMEs can find an IT storage strategy that ensures the companies can grow .
It goes without saying that enterprises are generating data at an exponential rate . In this climate , SMEs need to find an IT storage strategy that enables them to quickly and easily scale their storage infrastructure in a cost-effective way as their company grows and keep their data secure and available to fuel this business growth . The unrelenting Digital Transformation compounds this challenge by boosting the business value of that massive data stash .
A software-defined approach is critical in enabling SMEs to scale their storage capacity and performance on demand . Traditional approaches are extremely siloed , require manual provisioning and sizing for performance and capacity and result in overspending and the inability to take advantage of new hardware technologies .
Instead , in a software-defined approach , storage resources are decoupled from physical hardware , aggregated into a giant pool and distributed dynamically to applications and users as needed . This means organisations can select any commodity hardware they prefer , drop them in to expand their storage capacity when necessary and use them until their true end of life , or replace them with the latest hardware to leverage
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