British businesses reported less concern than their US counter-parts about archiving and data retention in response to a survey commissioned by archiving software supplier Bridgehead Software Ltd.
While 62% of US respondents rated the archiving of data across multiple types of storage as important, only 41% of UK respondents felt the same way. Only 6% of US respondents answered don’t know to this question, compared to 20% in the UK.
Asked about the ability to keep copies of data in multiple locations, 69% of US respondents said this would be important or even very important, compared to 51% of UK respondents.
In both countries compliance with data retention regulations was only the third most important reason for archiving data, coming in behind data growth and disaster recovery. Regulatory compliance was cited by 58% of respondents, while data growth was named by 62% and disaster recover by 70%.
Compared to the same survey last year, 7% more respondents reported data volume of over 5TBm, and almost 60% more respondents reported primary data volumes of more than 15TB – up from 7% to 11% of all respondents. Bridgehead said that these numbers illustrate why data growth is a bigger cause of archiving efforts than compliance.
The survey was completed in July and covered over 350 senior level executives, IT managers, system and network administrators and engineers from North America and the UK.
