Nearly 47 percent of IT professionals surveyed said that they were investigating options on strategies for information lifecycle management (ILM).
The survey, which was carried out by vendor StorageTek, also found that the need to keep data accessible for longer periods of time, and trying to reduce storage costs were among the reasons cited by respondents as to why they were considering ILM.
Philip Belcher, managing director for StorageTek Australia/New Zealand, told ZDNet Australia that he wasn't surprised by the results.
"Clearly they are looking to better handle the amount of data they've got," Belcher said, adding that the results showed that respondents now realised that there was now a whole new tier of storage available. "What that really says is that [organisations] need to get hold of the information more rapidly, and they really are looking to milk as much out of this data as possible".
When asked about future plans for storage in respondent's organisations, over half said that they were planning two or three tiers of disk in storage hierarchies.
Of the respondents, nearly 76 percent were looking at automated tape solutions. Three in five organisations had already implemented a storage area network (SAN), although 63 percent had only a quarter or fewer of their servers connected into the SAN. One in five organisations surveyed had connected about half their servers to the SAN, with 16 percent of respondents having three quarters or more servers connected.
Impending server consolidation, opting for network attached storage, and not having time to evaluate and implement the change were amongst the reasons cited by respondents for not having connected servers to the SAN at their organisations.
The respondents, from 82 medium and large organisations, were responsible for storage management in their enterprises, according to StorageTek.
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