Big Data & IT Infirmity: Infographics from ViaWest

ViaWest’s IT Infirmity infographic outlines the biggest issues facing CIOs in 2012. The issues include the difficulties of finding and retaining skilled employees, minimizing IT outages, and the inability to focus on strategic goals.

Detailing today’s storage issues and innovative data strategies, ViaWest’s infographic Data Storage in the Era of Big Data notes how each day, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created, which is equivalent to 57.5 billion 32 GB iPads. To help companies address their large amounts of data, ViaWest recently introduced its Network Attached Storage offering which delivers increasing flexibility and choice for its customers. The NAS solution provides simplified data and infrastructure management, coupled with improved storage efficiency. As part of its KINECTed Storage family, the NAS platform is a flexible, affordable offering that delivers built-in support for Ethernet attached storage. ViaWest also offers a SAN platform for high performing applications and databases creating flexible and customizable options.

In addition, with rapidly growing IT infrastructures, companies today find it hard to balance top IT issues and still focus on driving strategic initiatives. These issues and solutions are illustrated in ViaWest’s infographic titled, IT Infirmity: What's Ailing IT Departments In 2012. Notably, 48% of CIOs say their biggest challenge in 2012 is finding skilled people, a 5% increase from last year as reported by CIO Enterprise Forum.

With a robust portfolio including managed hosting, storage, cloud computing services and secure colocation in over 22 data centers, ViaWest delivers highly available and tailored solutions. Its managed hosting platform offers hardware, operating system, and database monitoring and management, providing clients customizable solutions to meet specific requirements. ViaWest’s flexible solutions and 24/7 support make shifting to a managed services provider a seamless transition.

“Our technical, sales and service teams are focused on not only understanding our clients’ IT requirements but also their overall business objectives,” states Roy Dimoff, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ViaWest. “Through our highly flexible managed services portfolio we can deliver true value to our clients – solving key business and IT issues along with helping them prepare for future growth.”