Can Your Business Handle Intense Data Flow?
Many businesses that process massive amounts of data are not prepared for a sudden surge in data flow even though these companies predict a future spike in the demand for data, a recent study finds.
Business Performance Management Forum (BPM) an organization dedicated to promoting performance accountability and process improvement in global organizations, conducted a survey of 125 IT professionals to assess data performance and the effect of downtime on a business’ operations.
Over half of those surveyed have already experienced losses in productivity due to data overload at critical moments, and more than a third of those surveyed expect a significant increase in data volumes and user demand in the coming year, yet 56% are not fully prepared to handle it.
Moreover, even though 80% responded that storage performance and data access by employees, partners and customers are important to their business, 78% of these companies are not adequately prepared to handle a surge of data flow 10 times greater than their average daily processing volumes
It is quite obvious that the success of a business that handles a massive data flow depends on its being prepared for those unpredictable yet inevitable spikes in data generation and user demand. Chalk it up as yet another concern on a long list of IT objectives.
