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Almost half of IT managers in large enterprises are buying more storage than they actually need, according to new research.
And average company has more than a third of its total storage lying unused, claims the study by technology research experts Vanson Bourne. Hostway, the web-hosting company that sponsored the survey, claims businesses could be wasting hundreds of thousands on superfluous capacity.
"The current model of storage procurement is fundamentally flawed," claims Neil Barton, director at Hostway. "Purchasing storage that you don't need is like hiring two people for one job, one of whom falls asleep at their desk and occasionally makes tea. Not only is it unnecessary, it also means the IT team can't use their budget as effectively as they'd like."
Barton says that companies need to start looking for more flexible storage methods. "Quite rightly, people don't want to pay for capacity they don't need; however, until recently they've been forced to, as there hasn't been many viable alternatives. But with the cost of WAN bandwidth dropping, it's not possible to effectively pay on demand for storage," he says.
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