Demand for storage resources continues to grow apace, as does the need for the data they hold to be available to multiple applications, from any location, immediately and continuously. With the emphasis firmly on always-on access, especially through customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning systems, high-availability storage networks have become a significant growth area.

IT budgets are still under heavy pressure, so the question is not so much how to create a storage infrastructure, but how to create an affordable one. IT decision-makers looking to develop future storage strategies are having to assess their current storage capabilities to find appropriate old technologies to fill gaps - along with selecting new vendors and solution providers. Cindy Rossouw, Comztek storage expert, says her company has seen data recovery as one of the biggest drivers for the growth and improvement in enterprise storage strategies and architectures.