2012 Storage Market Survey

ESG conducted an in-depth survey of 418 IT and data storage professionals concerning their organizations’ current data storage environments including current storage resources, challenges, purchase criteria, as well as forward-looking data storage plans. Survey participants represented midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations in North America (United States and Canada).

Author(s): Jennifer Gahm, Bill Lundell, Mark Peters
Published: November 12, 2012
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2012 Storage Market Survey Executive Summary

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The survey was designed to answer the following questions:

  • How large is a typical storage environment in terms of disk-based storage system capacity?
  • At what rate are organizations adding storage capacity on an annual basis?
  • What applications are most responsible for data storage capacity growth? 
  • What types of disk-based storage systems do organizations use? How does this vary according to size and complexity of IT and storage environments?
  • How many storage administrators do organizations employ? Are they satisfied with storage-focused headcount they have in place?
  • How much did organizations spend on data storage technology in 2012? How do they expect that to change in 2013?
  • What IT initiatives will have the greatest impact on storage spending over the next 12-18 months?
  • What challenges do organizations face in terms of their data storage environments? Is it getting easier to manage data storage?
  • What kind of impact has server virtualization technology had on data storage?
  • How do organizations expect public cloud computing services to affect their onsite storage infrastructure and processes?
  • How pervasive is the adoption of solid-state storage technology?
  • How extensive are current solid-state storage deployments? At what rate will solid-state storage erode the footprint of hard disk drives (HDDs)?
  • What solid-state storage implementation types have current users deployed? What do potential adopters expect to use?
  • What are the future plans for tape technology? How are current tape users leveraging the technology today?
  • What are viewed as “must have” storage features and functions? What criteria do organizations use when evaluating storage vendors/solutions?
  • What is the most important message storage vendors can deliver to their customers?

Survey participants represent a wide range of industries including manufacturing, financial services, communications and media, health care, retail, government, and business services. For more details, please see the Executive Summary of this report.

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