Companies are facing an explosion of servers and data. At the same time, these organizations are facing the need to reduce overall spending on IT. Combined with data retention requirements and the need for both backup and disaster recovery plans are causing organizations to face the fact that backup and disaster recovery procedures are time consuming. These divergent trends are one of the many issues IT management faces today.

This analyst paper, commissioned by IBM in 2011 with The Kusnetzky Group, looks at the importance of reducing primary storage while supporting data protection and recovery in a cost effective manner. Read on to see how IBM Real-time Compression helps can contain the data growth in your business.