The industry reflects, looks ahead

By Staff, ZDNet Asia
Friday, March 14, 2008 06:39 PM

Jim Simon, Asia-Pacific marketing director, Quantum

Jim Simon,
Quantum
Some successful organizations "turn lemons into lemonade" by taking advantage of a recessionary budget cycle to accelerate ahead of their competition by investing, when others aren't.

Q. Gartner issued a report warning IT heads to prepare a recession budget. What is your view?
Simon: Business cycles come and go. Some successful organizations "turn lemons into lemonade" by taking advantage of a recessionary budget cycle to accelerate ahead of their competition by investing, when others aren't. This will make the organizations more efficient and in a better position to capitalize when the business cycle begins to expand.

Most IT heads often forget to...
… Routinely practice a data recovery emergency. Like any rescue team it takes practice so that when a real emergency arises the team has the confidence and skills to address it quickly and effectively.

Work-life balance is...
... Essential. Too much time in one pursuit or the other can oftentimes end in less than desirable outcomes!

The biggest challenge facing IT departments is...
... Data growth. For the past few decades, data has been growing between 50 percent and 100 percent per year.

Ensuring that a company's critical data from laptops to data centers is protected in a highly available yet cost-effective manner has been a challenge, but Quantum's mission is to help address our customers' challenges with backup, recovery, and archive.


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