Documomentum in Europe.......
Back-up & Restore was the original killer app of the SAN market which started to emerge in 1998. ECM, however, may end up becoming the ultimate killer app of networked storage as SAN and NAS converge along with Replication and Back-up.
CIO survey shows ECM set to surge, Documentum leads
By News IS
Posted: 27/11/2003 at 20:43 GMT
A survey of European CIOs, published this week on the subject of Enterprise Content Management (ECM), reveals the rationale behind the Open Text - Ixos merger, showing Documentum as the European market leader with Open Text nowhere in sight.
Other strong players, only just behind Documentum in Europe include Vignette and Interwoven, with the Open Text's acquisition target Ixos in fourth place with less than half the other three's level of penetration.
The study from Rethink Researhc however shows that these companies have barely scratched the surface in Europe, with 66% of companies not yet having ECM, and of those about 60% of them plan to buy a system for the first time within the next 24 months, more than doubling the European market in the process.
In Germany, 37% of respondents had installed a content system, and in France 29%. Only 17% of Benelux respondents and just 7% of Scandinavians had systems in place.
But there will be an upturn in Scandinavian interest with 50% of respondents from this region planning to finally invest in content management after 2004.
The report, "Content and Document Management Trends 2004" costs £600 and can be purchased here.
theregister.co.uk
............Research conducted by Macarthur Stroud International (Surrey, UK, www.macarthurstroud.com) indicates that 29% of mid-sized and large organisations in Europe have implemented a storage area nework (SAN), with an average of 2.5 SANs per organisation. The average number of SAN switch ports per organisation exceeds 100, which is expected to approximately double annually.
According to the survey, the primary reasons that end users implement SANs are for better scalability, availability, performance, and reliability. Of the 63% of the users that have consolidated their data storage, 71% have consolidated on a SAN and 19% have consolidated on network-attached storage (NAS). Macarthur Stroud interviewed users in France, Germany, the UK, Italy, and Switzerland.
—John Hatcher
is.pennnet.com
Backup Still a Pain in the Neck
Many IT shops are planning to turn to disk-backup systems to deal with the increasing load imposed by daily backups, according to Byte and Switch's latest reader poll.
The results of our November survey show that 41 percent of respondents expect to introduce disk backup to augment their tape infrastructure, and another 16 percent said they expect to replace tape with disk backup systems.
And they seem ready to move quickly: One-third said they expect to deploy disk backup within the next six months, with another 36 percent promising to do so in six months or longer. Eighteen percent said they've already deployed disk backup, while 12 percent vowed "never" to do so. The main barrier for disk backup, according to respondents, is cost: 35 percent say IT budgets are still tight.
The survey, based on 52 responses, also reveals that fundamental aspects of data protection are still quite problematic for IT administrators.
The No. 1 issue is the sheer volume: 31 percent of respondents said their backup windows are "absurd" because of too much data. Meanwhile, 20 percent said their top difficulty is that they can't tell whether backups have been successful or not. Just 10 percent said they had no major problems associated with their backup processes.
Overall, 35 percent said their backup windows are between three and six hours, with 29 percent picking six to 24 hours -- and a hapless 2 percent said it takes more than 24 hours to complete a regular backup.
To help companies deal with their mounting data protection needs, storage vendors have rallied around a new buzzword: information lifecycle management (ILM), which is supposed to let users manage data from its creation all the way through to its eventual disposal.
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