Pent up demand…45 Terabytes worth

US45_signSearchStorageChannel.com ‘s annual IT Spending Survey indicates storage manager will add an average of 45TB per company this year alone. 6TB more than anticipated last year….talk about pent up demand.

  • Companies with >$1B in revenue a whopping 80TB
  • Companies with <$100M in revenue 25TB

Looking at these numbers, companies 10x bigger are only 3x bigger in terms of capacity needs.  What does this say about where the growth is coming from?  Once again, small to medium sized (SMB) companies, and face it, there’s many more of them than the $1B+ companies.

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Given the study also indicates that storage budgets will grow roughly 3.2%, that’s a lot of bang for your buck.   What are they planning to spend money on? No surprise…

  • Data Backup
  • Capacity
  • Data Recovery

All 3 being “nearline” applications, meaning these guys will be investing much of their dollars in lower performance (7200RPM)  higher capacity Tier 2 solutions meant to best address data growth.  Looking at the entire picture, the number one priority is to get a grasp on data growth and play catch up from a year of getting by with what you got.

Once under control, you can bet the push for higher performance solutions will begin to surge. Good thing enterprise SSD is on the rise, and the Tier 1 drives keep getting bigger and faster.

The future looks bright for enterprise storage.

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2010-03-03T10:30:34+00:00

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  1. […] Savvio – a channel game changer? Going Green – it’s all about the money Pent up demand – 45 Terabytes worth March 3, 2010 – 3:56 pm | By Mark Wojtasiak | Posted in Storage Solutions | Tagged 2.5 inch hard […]

  2. DerekGascon March 3, 2010 at 4:26 pm - Reply

    Very interesting statistics indeed. It’s looking like secondary file storage on disk-based archive has opportunity this year. Not surprising given growth rates in unstructured data as well as need to improve backup and ensure recoverability. Perhaps adoption of object-based storage is ready to take a bigger spot on the stage for “nearline” requirements.

    Curious as to your thoughts and whether we’ll see any object technology coming from Seagate. My opinion is that there’s great opportunity in this space.

    Derek

  3. Mark Wojtasiak March 5, 2010 at 9:10 am - Reply

    Great points. I know that Seagate has been very involved in terms of R&D around object based storage over the past several years, but cannot say we’ll see the technology applied specifically to the nearline segment this year. All I can say is stay tuned.

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