India leads converged system adoption

India is leading in cloud storage and converged system adoption in Asia Pacific, according to a survey released by Hitachi Data Systems, InformationWeek reports.

The Indian market is the most mature in terms of the adoption of cloud technologies and the highest usage levels of converged systems.

Around 50% of respondents in India are using or planning to use cloud storage in the next six to 12 months; 30% are using converged systems; and 35% plan to use such systems.

Data management issues due to explosive growth and new challenges uncovered through the virtualisation of the server platform dominate concerns, Biztech2.com states.

In all Asia Pacific markets surveyed, IT executives are primarily concerned with data growth, with 56% of respondents citing it as the main challenge.

According to The Register, IDC says there is already more data in the world than there is space to store it, and according to IBM, every two days, the world creates as much data as all the data that was created before 2003.

Mark Thomas, data warehousing Infosphere specialist at IBM Software Group, Australia/New Zealand, comments: “Organisations know they have to do something with it, but no one is quite sure what they should do, or how they should handle it.”