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Gap in vendor offering, Indian enterprise storage needs

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NEW DELHI: Storage vendors have a lot of homework to do in addressing the

requirements of Indian enterprises. CIOs gathered under the auspices of the ‘Dataquest

CIO Forum’ and raised many pertinent issues related to the storage needs of

the industry. One of the issues was how to integrate the distributed environment

in which storage is commonly deployed in a typical enterprise. Not only that

there are also interoperability and cross-platform issues that need to be

addressed in these enterprises.

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Another issue that was raised was that storage options are still far too

expensive for Indian enterprises. Hard disk drives are currently still

cost-effective for rather than state of the art technologies like SAN and NAS

solutions. Enterprises say that they are yet to find solutions from vendors,

which would help them, cut storage costs substantially. CIOs also pointed out

that it was more critical to have business continuity than to go in for

expensive solutions.

Besides, some organizations are still grappling with the issue of how

important storage is for their needs. It was found that by and large

manufacturing companies did not feel the need for storage as much as service

oriented organizations needed. In fact, it was most critical for service

organizations to mange customer database as well as information about market

trends and competitor's records.

Indian enterprises are increasingly getting open to ideas like outsourcing

the management of their database and storage needs. The primary reason for this

kind of mindset change is the signing of SLAs and the need to concentrate on

core competencies.

Panelists included CIOs of Delhi Stock Exchange, Wg Cdr. Avinash Surma;

Fortis Healthcare, Sunil Kapoor; Seagram Manufacturing, Alok Biswas; Daewoo

Motors, Pradeep Gupta; Perfetti Sandeep Parikh, etc among others. HP and Legato

represented the vendor side.

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