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82% of companies do not have budgets for storage expenditures - 7.30.2007 [more]
74% of respondents to a Storewiz survey
say they are interested in reducing the size of stored data and
management time by one-third, with 71% interested in cutting their
backup time by an equal margin. 82% of companies do not have the budget
for storage expenditures in the current quarter. 39% of participants in
the study are managing more than 10TB of data with 7% handling more
than 100. Most respondents anticipate an 11 to 25% annual storage
growth rate (48%) followed by those expecting a 1 to 10% increase
(36%). 12% forecast between a 26 and 50% rate with 4% expecting more
than 50% growth. 28% of those surveyed are seeing power consumption
associated with their data storage rise by as much as 50%.
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