There's been an explosive growth of fixed-content storage, which has far surpassed the growth of other forms of enterprise data such as transactional or database information. Storage managers need to know what solutions are available today for fixed-content data.

Fixed content is information that never changes after creation. It's actively referenced, typically shared among users and must be retained for a long period of time. Examples include: electronic documents, presentations and e-books; rich media such as movies, videos, digital photographs and audio files; check images and financial statements; bioinformatics, X-rays, MRIs and CAT scans; CAD/CAM diagrams and blueprints and e-mail messages. However, it's measured, fixed-content data requires a lot of storage: A 3,000-person organization generates approximately 1TB of e-mails per year. A picture archive and communications system (PACS) in a large hospital may generate more than 5TB per year in digital X-rays or MRIs. Major banks are scanning millions of check images per year, requiring multiple terabytes of storage. Additionally, the new focus on U.S. Homeland Security is driving an increase in storage requirements for audio and video surveillance activity.

Organizations need to leverage the value of their fixed-content information to improve customer service, reduce access time to information and gain competitive advantage. ATTO can help you achieve your goal.