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Despite an uneven economy, the growth of data from Web services and rich media continues to drive technology spending on storage and the networks required to share stored information across an enterprise. The result: companies are constantly searching for better technology to manage that information. John Parkinson, chief technology officer at Paris-based Cap Gemini Ernst & Young LLP, spoke with Computerworld U.S. recently about information overload and the increased complexity it brings to the enterprise.
Q: What types of concerns do you see related to data storage with client firms?
A: In general, it's how much storage [capacity] everybody needs. If you look at the opportunity to leverage information assets as part of managing a business and then the amount of data that has to go into storage in order to do that, the numbers are astounding compared to a decade ago.
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