5 Important Facts About Data Storage in the Enterprise

One Fifth of companies store a petabyte or more data.

Data Storage Demands Vary by Business Size

• While 20 percent of organizations store a petabyte or more of data, a sizable 40 percent of organizations have less than 50 terabytes of data.

• However, the results are different for

businesses with less than 100 employees: 29 percent of companies store a petabyte or more, and the percentage of organizations with less than 50TB has drops to just 22 percent.

Nearly half of the organizations surveyed still use TAPE STORAGE.

Tape Storage Still a Major Player

• Just 29 percent of organizations said they are taking advantage of affordable public cloud storage.

• This compares with tape storage, which is still being used by nearly 50 percent of the organizations that TwinStrata surveyed.

• Half the survey respondents who use the public cloud spend less than 10 percent of their IT budget on storage, compared with only one out of every three organizations using tape and spending so little.

SANs are the most common storage medium for low priority-data.

SANs Used for Low-Priority Data

• The vast majority (81 percent) of organizations that use SANs or NAS devices keeps inactive data on them. Yet 68 percent of those who use tapes do so for inactive data, and a mere 38 percent of public cloud storage users keep inactive data there.

• Using SANs for low-priority data still remains the most common medium, with 65 percent of organizations with large amounts of passive data.

Data heavy organizations store a lot of information that they don`t, or will seldom, use.

How Important Is All That Data?

• The survey found almost 60 percent of data-heavy organizations store more than half a petabyte of inactive data, and more than a quarter of these organizations are storing three-quarters of a petabyte that will rarely, if ever, be used again.

• The report projected that given the rate at which data creation overall has increased, that percentage is expected to grow.

Almost two out of three organizations buy additional capacity every year or so.

Majority of Businesses Buy Storage Annually

•Nearly two-thirds of organizations surveyed admitted to purchasing additional capacity on an annual or biannual basis, suggesting that despite the popularity of deleting data, the primary solution to capacity issues is purchasing more physical storage. •Just 11 percent of organizations surveyed only buy additional storage every five or more years.

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