Although it's no surprise to storage and backup administrators, according to a recent survey by Gartner, data growth is the biggest data center hardware infrastructure challenge for large enterprises. 47% percent of survey respondents ranked data growth in their top three challenges, followed by system performance and scalability at 37%, and network congestion and connectivity architecture at 36%.

What are storage managers doing to address these challenges? 62% percent of respondents said they'd be purchasing along-term data archiving or retirement solution by the end of this year.

To help you make the right data archiving decision, this E-Guide from SerachStorage.com features top tips, tutorials and podcasts on long-term data archiving. Whether you are choosing data archiving software, considering cloud archiving, or are a small business, this guide has the answers you need.