Some 80 percent of those polled by CommVault reported that they will allocate as much as 20 percent of their budgets on data protection hardware, software, services/support and media.
Several key IT researchers
already have reported that global and U.S. IT spending in 2011 is expected to
increase modestly over that of 2010, thanks to an uptick in the general
ecomony.
Now some storage-specific
market research is coming to the fore. CommVault on Jan. 10 released the
results of its IT Storage Spending Survey, which polled a cross-section of more
than 350 of its global software customers.
In this survey, nearly 80
percent of storage administrators reported that their IT spending budgets would
either be increased slightly or maintained at 2010 levels. About 80 percent of
those polled reported that they will allocate as much as 20 percent of their
budgets on data-protection hardware, software, services/support and media.
Typically, storage spending
involving non-hardware items such as data protection, data monitoring and
capacity management constitutes less than 10 percent of yearly budgets. Most
storage spending goes into purchases involving hardware, networking, software
and maintenance.
"Our customers have been
telling us that the continuing data glut is creating undue cost as well as the
risk of data loss and business disruption," David West, CommVault vice
president of marketing and business development, said.
"They need to fix these
problems without dramatically increasing their budgets, which has been a
recurring theme for the past several years. In 2011, companies will still need
to do more with less, but they're also investing more in modern solutions that
solve these real-world IT challenges while leveraging budget allocations to the
fullest."
The CommVault survey included
professionals responsible for IT budget allocations encompassing storage and
data management, including CIOs, vice presidents and IT directors as well as
backup, server and storage group managers or administrators.
About 60 percent of the
respondents polled for this survey are in organizations with 500 to 10,000
employees and represent a range of industry sectors, including government,
education, manufacturing, health care, financial services, engineering and
retail.
About 50 percent of the
respondents were responsible for managing between 6 to 25 terabytes of primary
data last year; 22 percent managed fewer than 25 physical servers, while 24
percent managed fewer than 25 virtual servers currently.
Chris Preimesberger was named Editor-in-Chief of Features & Analysis at eWEEK in November 2011. Previously he served eWEEK as Senior Writer, covering a range of IT sectors that include data center systems, cloud computing, storage, virtualization, green IT, e-discovery and IT governance. His blog, Storage Station, is considered a go-to information source. Chris won a national Folio Award for magazine writing in November 2011 for a cover story on Salesforce.com and CEO-founder Marc Benioff, and he has served as a judge for the SIIA Codie Awards since 2005. In previous IT journalism, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. His diverse resume also includes: sportswriter for the Los Angeles Daily News, covering NCAA and NBA basketball, television critic for the Palo Alto Times Tribune, and Sports Information Director at Stanford University. He has served as a correspondent for The Associated Press, covering Stanford and NCAA tournament basketball, since 1983. He has covered a number of major events, including the 1984 Democratic National Convention, a Presidential press conference at the White House in 1993, the Emmy Awards (three times), two Rose Bowls, the Fiesta Bowl, several NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments, a Formula One Grand Prix auto race, a heavyweight boxing championship bout (Ali vs. Spinks, 1978), and the 1985 Super Bowl. A 1975 graduate of Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., Chris has won more than a dozen regional and national awards for his work. He and his wife, Rebecca, have four children and reside in Redwood City, Calif.Follow on Twitter: editingwhiz
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Chris Preimesberger was named Editor-in-Chief of Features & Analysis at eWEEK in November 2011. Previously he served eWEEK as Senior Writer, covering a range of IT sectors that include data center systems, cloud computing, storage, virtualization, green IT, e-discovery and IT governance. His blog, Storage Station, is considered a go-to information source. Chris won a national Folio Award for magazine writing in November 2011 for a cover story on Salesforce.com and CEO-founder Marc Benioff, and he has served as a judge for the SIIA Codie Awards since 2005. In previous IT journalism, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. His diverse resume also includes: sportswriter for the Los Angeles Daily News, covering NCAA and NBA basketball, television critic for the Palo Alto Times Tribune, and Sports Information Director at Stanford University. He has served as a correspondent for The Associated Press, covering Stanford and NCAA tournament basketball, since 1983. He has covered a number of major events, including the 1984 Democratic National Convention, a Presidential press conference at the White House in 1993, the Emmy Awards (three times), two Rose Bowls, the Fiesta Bowl, several NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments, a Formula One Grand Prix auto race, a heavyweight boxing championship bout (Ali vs. Spinks, 1978), and the 1985 Super Bowl. A 1975 graduate of Pepperdine University in Malibu, Calif., Chris has won more than a dozen regional and national awards for his work. He and his wife, Rebecca, have four children and reside in Redwood City, Calif.Follow on Twitter: editingwhiz
