Data Storage, Data Backup and Storage Virtualization: ZDE Report Validates Storage Sector as Healthiest in IT
Eighty-nine percent of storage survey respondents report that they will either maintain or increase their storage purchasing in 2009. There is reason for most of the storage business to remain confident looking ahead to next year -- despite the free falls in other sectors of the economy.
ZDE Report Validates Storage Sector as Healthiest in IT
Highlights
A majority of respondents were involved with NAS and SAN
Two-fifths expect their companies to spend more on storage in 2009 than in 2008
Tech to most drive growth in volume of data storage in 2009
90% expect their storage volumes to increase in 2009; 57% expect storage volume to increase 25% or more
60% of companies that have done some storage consolidation expect consolidation to increase in 2009
73% of companies expecting to spend on storage virtualization in 2008/2009 expect such virtualization to increase their "demand for storage capacity" in 2009