Demand for enterprise data storage will grow at a rate of 90 per cent through 2004, according to a report from the META Group released on Friday.
The report, titled Enterprise Storage: Technology Adoption and Deployment Trends, is based on a survey of 328 senior-level IT professionals. Respondents indicated that they are turning to new approaches to manage increasing volumes of storage – 60 per cent of them will implement storage consolidation offerings to increase return on investment (ROI) and to improve utilization.
Other findings from the report indicate that recovery and back-up, which includes disaster recovery, remains the top spending priority for IT organizations. As well, the number of respondents looking at the implementation of network-attached storage (NAS) is expected to stay flat through 2004. The use of dedicated storage servers or the use of individual tape is anticipated to see a slowdown, while interest in storage attached networks (SANs) is growing.
Sean Derrington, a META Group analyst and co-author of the report, noted that when enterprises are attempting to deal with storage, it is important that they first attempt to identify the problems they are trying to address.
More information can be found on the firm’s Web site at http://www.metagroup.com.