Need for information management increasing: EMC

BANGALORE, INDIA:EMC Corporation, a provider in information infrastructure solutions, announced on Tuesday the results of the IDG Mindtrack survey on information infrastructure priorities within the Indian CIO community.

The survey draws upon the experience and feedback of 148 CIOs polled from leading organizations across different industry verticals.

The results of the study reaffirm the need for information management solutions that will mitigate the challenges associated with the exploding digital data universe, said a press release.

The digital universe, according to EMC, is getting bigger and growing more rapidly as a result of accelerated growth in the use of digital cameras, Web 2.0 technologies, SMS, streaming multimedia and other sources of digital information.

The Mindtrack survey revealed that this increase in unstructured data versus the availability of storage is driving corporate investments in storage virtualization, information lifecycle management and back-up / archival technologies, with the latter receiving the most attention, said the release.

The study revealed that close to 80 per cent of the data within organizations is either partially or completely unstructured with only a fraction of the employees having complete access to structured data, it added.

In the current economic climate, interfacing with customers and increasing customer loyalty is at once an extremely critical function and the hardest job in an organization.

As was found in the survey, a majority of CIOs are firmly convinced that enterprise-wide information management strategy is important, if not critical, for the success of their businesses, the release said.

CIOs, however, are divided on the issue of whether or not there are benefits to heterogeneous storage architecture. “With Indian information infrastructure market reaching the USD one billion mark, vendors must align their products with the key concerns and the needs of the CIOs,” said Alok Ohrie, president, EMC India and SAARC. The results of the security survey shows that more than half of CIOs surveyed will increase their security budgets in the range of 10-30 per cent to combat rising theft and leakage of intellectual property and financial information, said the release. In a bid to understand and get an unbiased assessment of their security credentials, a large majority of those surveyed will be outsourcing their risk assessment and security audit functions to a trusted technology partner, it added. ©CyberMedia News