Enterprises in Asia-pacific not ready for big data, says survey
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 26 (Bernama) -- Hitachi Data Systems Corporation (HDS), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi Ltd, today announced survey results, indicating that current storage infrastructure is generally meeting business needs, but information technology (IT) systems are not keeping up with business requirements for deeper insights and better management of data growth.
It said more than 50% of some of Asia-Pacific's large enterprises, which participated in a recent survey, are not anticipating or planning for the advent of "big data".
"The survey results clearly indicate that enterprises need to embrace advanced cloud technologies and solutions to manage data growth, transform data into actionable information and harness its power as a strategic asset for business insights and innovation," it said.
The survey results were published in a HDS-sponsored International Data Corporation (IDC) white paper titled "The Changing Face of Storage: A Rethink of Strategy that Goes Beyond the Data".
The survey was conducted by the IDC between August and September, with 150 information technology executives from large enterprises in Australia, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia and Singapore.
"The regional survey results reveal varying levels of maturity and understanding of storage management.
"The challenge of ensuring data relevancy and managing data growth, which ranked among the top five common issues faced, clearly indicates that the anticipated trend towards big data is something few are ready to take on," said Simon Piff, vice-president IDC Asia-Pacific Enterprise Infrastructure Research associate.
Meanwhile, Kevin Eggleston, senior vice-president and general manager HDS Asia-Pacific said HDS believes that data and information must be stored, governed and managed for insights and innovation to drive strategic and competitive values.
"Embracing the latest technologies like cloud services not only enable enterprises to manage data growth but also to collect and connect data to create valuable information," he said.
On the local front, HDS said the Malaysian market indicated a more mature view to managing issues in the environment, tempered by budgetary challenges.
"However, a less-than-positive attitude towards cloud indicates more education on the benefits as well as addressing the issues around off-premise security is needed," it said, adding that a better understanding of this will likely change the attitude here.
HDS said Malaysia was a country least concerned with virtual server sprawl but having the lowest levels of virtualisation. This indicates that it is somewhat less developed than other markets in this area.
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