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IT executives barely have time to keep track of the technology in their own environments; finding the hours in the day to stay abreast of all the new technology solutions in the marketplace is next to impossible. At some point, however, those in the data center corner office are bound to hear about solutions that can deliver near immediate payback and benefit other IT initiatives.CIO Insight, a leading IT executive publication and accompanying Web site, recently published its “Top CIO Priorities for 2009” research, which found that 38% of its 200+ respondents have “cutting costs” as the top business priority for 2009, up from 29% in 2008. Thirty-seven percent of respondents stated that “reducing ROI costs” is the top management priority in the upcoming year while 34% said “improving the ROI in IT investments” is their biggest management initiative. It’s clear that IT will spend very wisely in 2009—with investment paybacks being measured in months rather than years.An investment in data deduplication products is easy to rationalize. These products offer benefits to more than just the storage group because they cut data protection capital and operating expenses, facilitate consolidation of distributed backup operations and slash server virtualization-related storage costs. Data deduplication offerings should, therefore, be on every CIO’s project short list in 2009.
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