Gridstore Unveils The Grid, Pay-as-you-Grow Storage Solution

Gridstore
Inc. announced findings from a study on the top IT pain points
impacting mid-market enterprises.

The study revealed that managing the
storage lifecycle due to staggering data growth is a challenge for IT
administrators. Organizations are faced with the need to both
overcome storage limitations and the resulting complexity and expense
of storage upgrades and over-provisioning storage to accommodate for
this growth.

According to IDC, over 1.8ZB of data
was created last year in the form of files, email and video and will
account for 90% of all data created in the next decade. This data
proliferation is impacting businesses of all sizes, yet the number of
IT professionals available to manage all that data will only grow by
1.5 times today’s levels.

Findings of the study found that
during
a major storage upgrade:

• 55% of mid-market enterprises
  experienced business and end user disruption

• 32% experienced failed upgrade process
  where migrations didn’t complete

• 9% lost data or access to data during
  the migration

71% of the survey respondents reported
that they were adding storage and capacity every 6 to 12 months. 63%
of those surveyed had a storage environment of between 50 and 250TB
in capacity.

When asked what their top challenges
are today, the survey respondents commented that keeping it cost
effective, responsive and adequate for growing businesses needs;
backing up vast amounts of data; catching up with the growth of data
and the expense to do that; and, hitting capacity limits too quickly
were their top concerns.

To solve the mid-market’s storage
challenges, Gridstore offers the
Grid, a solution that scales to match the dynamics of business.
It allows you to pay as you grow and only what you need, when you
need it. There are no limits on performance, bandwidth or capacity.
This eliminates the challenge of storage forecasting, the high cost
of over provisioning and the risk of migration.

"Mid-sized enterprises are
feeling the pain of trying to keep up with staggering amounts of data
and are trying to solve the problem with monolithic storage solutions
that don’t meet their business requirements," said Kelly
Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. "Organizations are forced to purchase
expensive storage every 6 to 12 months, adding complexity and risk
that is disruptive to their business. The Grid gives organizations a
simple building block approach to solving their storage dilemma
allowing them to achieve the capacity and performance they need- at
the time they need it – without costly over provisioning or risky
forklift upgrades."