EMC sees disaster recovery key drivers in India

Bhaskar Hazarika

NEW DELHI: EMC Corp. sees disaster recovery and email management as the key growth drivers for information management technology in India.

Steve Redman, vice-president, EMC software group, Asia-Pacific, said that the disaster recovery and business continuity has become a top priority across organisations.

Organizations in India too have to look at implementing backup, recovery and archiving solutions that help them to store, archive, back-up and restore their critical data and applications.

“Additionally they also need to look at business continuity solutions to ensure that while restoration of site, data and applications is going on at the disaster site, business is continuing from another site and customers get the application availability at every hour,” he added.

Redman said that email management is the fastest growing mission critical application worldwide and is seen similar in India.

According to an Osterman Research in association with EMC and Legato revealed that 38 percent of organizations have experienced more than 50 percent growth in email volume.

Fifty-five percent of organizations have experienced email storage growth of greater than 50 percent during the past two years, while 10 percent of organizations have experienced email storage growth of than 200 percent during this period.

“Enterprises in India are also facing this huge email explosion and hence have to adopt effective e-mail management and archiving solutions. They need to implement a centralized data storage and retrieval system that makes enterprise e-mail easier to administer and use,” he added.

Speaking about the Indian market, Redman said that India is one of the strategic market identified by EMC worldwide.

“It is the one of the fastest growing market for us. We have substantially increased the investment in India from 100 million in November 2003 to an additional investment of USD 150 million in February 2005. We are planning to make an investment of USD 250 million by 2007,” he said.

Redman said that enterprise content management has also become an imperative for enterprises in India driven by the unprecedented growth in data, including structured, semi-structured, and unstructured information, which is estimated to grow approximately 50 percent per year.