2014 State of Storage Research Findings

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If you just look at vendor financials, the enterprise storage business seems stuck in neutral. However, flat revenue numbers mask a scorching pace of technical innovation, ongoing double-digit capacity growth in enterprises, and dramatic changes in how and where businesses store data.

Among almost 250 respondents to our InformationWeek 2014 State of Enterprise Storage Survey, all from organizations with 50 or more employees and involved in storage strategy or operations:

>> 68% have data replication in production use.

>> 61% use SSDs for general databases, up from 45% in 2013.

>> 47% use Fibre Channel SANs, down from 51% last year.

>> 31% say they keep enterprise database/data warehouse data indefinitely.

>> 25% use multiprotocol arrays now and plan to add more in the future.

In this report, we discuss changes on tap for storage admins this year:

>> Solid state will augment hard drives throughout the storage ecosystem — use flash wisely, and you could get all the benefit for short money.

>> Virtualization will help IT simplify, automate, and optimize data management, application placement, and capacity expansion via scale-out storage systems.

>> Cloud services will become a legitimate tier in the enterprise storage hierarchy. But beware of new data silos.

Respondent breakdown: 42% have 5,000 or more employees; 31% are over 10,000. Financial services, education, and IT vendors are well represented, and 38% are IT director/manager or IT executive management (C-level/VP) level.

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Executive Summary

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Storage volumes continue to rise

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Major jump in 50% to 74% growth rate

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Big data makes presence known

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So much for SharePoint decline

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Email growth steady

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More deletion of older email?

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“No policy” same as “indefinite”

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Any smoking guns in all that old data?

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Fibre Channel holds its own

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Cloud APIs strong out of the gate

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Snapshot use on the rise

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Encryption use should be 100%

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SSDs and analytics better together

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I/O QoS. Yes, it’s a thing

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Little movement on SSD form factor

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Most growth in 40% and up

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Most growth in 40% and up

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All-solid-state less desirable than expected

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D2D2T use slides

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Ethernet on the rise

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Reflection of heterogeneous storage

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Disaster recovery confidence up. False security?

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Automation plans slip

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Storage virtualization use creeps up

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Many on the fence about file virtualization

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Testing is key to finding flaws

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Significant jump in comprehensive platform use

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Creeping into the cloud

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Main worries remain consistent

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Storage hardware vendors take note

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Software smackdown

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Scale out starting strong

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Scale out vs. consolidation

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HP, IBM, EMC lead list

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Oracle/Sun posts gains

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Big vendors consolidate share

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Job title

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Revenue

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Industry

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Company size

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Size of IT organization

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Research SynopsisSurvey Name InformationWeek 2014 State of Enterprise Storage Survey

Survey Date January 2014

Region North America

Number of Respondents 242 at organizations with 50 or more employees

Purpose To gauge the state of storage technology adoption in the enterprise

Methodology InformationWeek surveyed 242 business technology decision-makers involved with storage at North American organizations with 50 or more employees. The survey was conducted online, and respondents were recruited via an email invitation containing an embedded link to the survey. The email invitation was sent to qualified

InformationWeek subscribers.

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