The document discusses information management challenges facing businesses and the role of archiving and storage solutions. It notes that businesses want to reduce costs, increase agility and manage risk while being good corporate citizens. Archiving solutions need to align with business needs on value, resilience, compliance and usability. Short term initiatives are focusing on infrastructure modernization and storage/information lifecycle management. Emerging technologies are bringing new opportunities and challenges around intelligent access to distributed information over time.

1. Managing Storage Cost, Governance, Risk and the Environment Martin Atherton Freeform Dynamics Ltd [email_address] October, 2007 www.freeformdynamics.com

4. How well do you think IT helps the business achieve its strategic and operational goals in the following areas? Contrary to some opinion, IT today does a pretty good job. That’s not to say it can’t do better, but in the main, things are ‘ok’ … under what conditions?

5. To what degree are the following areas a burden to your IT department? Information management touches many facets of the IT shop – and causes some major headaches Information management burden

13. 2007 - Do you have or are you planning to begin initiatives over the next 6 months in any of the following areas? MID-MARKET (250-5000 emps) 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100% Custom application development General infrastructure optimisation Mobile and remote access Enhancement of external web presence Governance, compliance and risk management Desktop upgrade/modernisation Storage and/or information lifecycle management Implementation of new packaged applications Policy-based security and identity management Content management, workflow and BPM IT best practice delivery (ITIL, COBIT, etc) Packaged application Workforce communication and collaboration Service oriented software development Outsourcing and/or managed services Optimisation of power usage and management Deployment of business intelligence software Automation of supply chain and/or other B2B Green computing in general Social computing and/or Web 2.0 Software as a service (SaaS) specifically Current initiative Planned in next 6 months

15. Given the volumes, diversity and physical distribution of information within your business, do you recognise any of the following potential issues?

16. To what degree do you consider these specific risks during business planning?

17. Have concerns of risk exposure held you back from taking full advantage of [some of the latest technologies and business practices]?

19. To what degree are the following used in your data centres and how is this changing?

20. Focal points for evolution into the future Continuous data protection (CDP) solutions Smart distributed data replication

21. What is the status of your capability in the following areas?

23. Given the volumes, diversity and physical distribution of information within your business, do you recognise any of the following potential issues?

24. Generally speaking, when you add everything up, how is your spending on IT risk related investments such as security and information management changing?

25. Has regulatory compliance been a specific driver in the following areas?