Edward Lim, general manager, Acronis Asia
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Q: What are your plans in light of the economic recession?
With the global economic recession, companies are definitely more cautious about their IT spending and investment in 2009. However, due to the importance of IT infrastructure and business information, which are critical to any business’ survival, we believe that the demand for storage management and disaster recovery solutions will continue to grow in 2009.
This is particularly true for comprehensive and easy-to-use backup solutions that can bring down both IT investment and business downtime costs and recover systems and data while minimizing impacts on productivity.
In addition, IDC has also predicted that the demand for storage space will continue into 2009, as the amount of data that companies accumulate is not slowing down very much. This will further fuel organizations’ demand for storage management solutions.
On the business front, we have aggressive growth plans in Asia for 2009 and will continue to expand in key established markets in the region including Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore and Taiwan. We are also growing and strengthening our channel alliances in the region and will continue to invest in research and development.
The biggest challenge facing IT departments is...
…to do more for less. Although IT budgets are shrinking, IT departments still have to grapple with issues such as meeting increasing user demands or expectations and managing complex IT environments.
To best address these challenges, IT executives are exploring effective and flexible solutions that can enhance productivity and efficiency at a minimal cost such as disk-imaging disaster recovery solutions, virtualization and de-duplication. By adopting these solutions, organizations will be able to achieve warm disaster recovery capabilities with cold disaster recovery cost.
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