2014 Data Storage Benchmarks

2014 DATA STORAGE BENCHMARKS Top reasons for storage system replacement 54% 38% 60% New Need more capacity technology 49% 30% Replace storage systems within five years Manufacturer X end of life High maintenance costs Top 3 ways to meet capacity needs 79% buy more disks 52% delete old data 40% replace systems 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 0000000000 Estimates of inactive data 56% estimate more than half their data is inactive 53% 22% estimate more than 3/4 is store inactive data on storage area networks Budget implications of inactive data 62% 39% of organizations storing inactive data solely on SANS and NAS use the public cloud to store inactive data spend MORE than 10% of IT budget on storage Sources: TWIN TRATH ĮMIU TRHI All statistics collected from a survey of 254 IT professionals involved with storage strategy. To read the full report, visit: http://www.twinstrata.com/storage-survey-2014 -------- - - -- --- ------- -----