Ravi Rajendran, vice president and general manager, ASEAN, Hitachi Data Systems
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Q: Are you worried about the news of the recession?
It seems that everyone will be feeling the effects of the global recession in some form or other. That said, organizations nonetheless realize the importance of maintaining the integrity and availability of their core business data. This sentiment is supported by Gartner who, in a recent report, predicted that IT spending across the Asia-Pacific excluding Japan (APEJ) will grow by at least 8.3 percent in 2009.
The biggest challenge facing IT departments is...
The categorical slashing of their budgets. Faced with an economic slowdown, companies will necessarily look inwards for cost-cutting. While we do not expect the knee-jerk reaction of slashing IT spend (previously witnessed in 2000), there will be a slowdown in large-scale IT project spend and infrastructure expansion.
As this is a very real possibility, IT departments should look towards products and services that enable consolidation and optimisation of existing IT infrastructure to drive cost-savings associated with hardware, maintenance, energy and IT real-estate.
In Singapore, we still see companies that have a storage infrastructure utilization rate between 30 to 40 percent. This is a significant underutilization of their existing IT investment and represents an area where the highest OPEX savings can be realized.
With the current emphasis on companies to streamline their operations and cut costs, we believe that there is an opportunity for vendors and service providers to help their clients consolidate and optimize their resources.
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