Storage Trends

Every day there are gains in the IT Storage sector. Big data is on its way, but the problem remains: how to implement services and support for this growing industry segment? As more devices get into the hands of consumers, and businesses bring online more software tools to aid development and growth, we see the opportunity. Just search the Internet for open-source information; we did, and here’s what we found:

IDC – HDD Industry to Deliver More Than 300,000 Petabytes of Storage Capacity Over the Next Five Years to Enterprise Datacenters and Clouds

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS22324610

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., May 3, 2010 – Despite trying economic times, and an unprecedented decline in hard disk drive (HDD) terabyte shipments for enterprise applications in 2009, HDD vendors forged ahead by introducing new HDD products/form factors that address both current and future enterprise storage market requirements. According to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC), HDD shipments for enterprise applications will increase from 40.5 million units in 2009 to 52.6 million units in 2014. Moreover, the HDD industry will ship more Petabytes for enterprise applications in the next two years than it did in the preceding 20 years.

“We’re definitely seeing intensive cost cutting measures among end users striving to bring more efficiency to current solutions,” said John Rydning, research director for Storage Mechanisms: Disk. “The employment of technologies such as data deduplication, thin provisioning, storage multitiering, and storage virtualization are all contributing to reducing end-user costs.”

Other key findings from IDC’s research include the following:

• The transition from 3.5in. to 2.5in. performance-optimized form factor HDDs will be complete by 2012
• Growing interest in new storage delivery models such as storage as a service, or storage in the cloud is likely to put greater storage capacity growth demands on Internet datacenters
• The price per gigabyte of performance-optimized HDD storage will continue to decline at a rate of approximately 25% to 30% per year

Also we have a video with HP’s Jimmy Daley on storage trends for the server market. Good insights to keep track of.

Pictures and Videos from the Datacenter

We were at the facility this week installing servers, switches, and routers; so we decided to take a few pictures and videos. Here’s a look:

Router lights from XZ Backup on Vimeo.

Datacenter from XZ Backup on Vimeo.

What About All the Data?

XZ Backup is primarily in the B2B Storage space providing a complete solutions stack for companies looking to leverage an Infrastructure-as-a-Service utility model for quick integration of Enterprise Online Backup into their business.

We are in daily contact with resellers who are successfully using our management system to deploy disaster recovery services to their established client bases.

If you do a Google Search for “storage growth” you can find all sorts of resources on the numbers relating to disk space sold, market segmentation, and future projections.

Storage Sprawl a Catalyst for High-Growth Data Deduplication Market

With analysts putting data growth in the range of 50 percent or more per year, storing duplicated data is just adding insult to injury.

According to one source, duplication rates run as high as 30 percent or more among companies that don’t have the appropriate policies and tools in place. This might help explain why data deduplication is considered one of the top technologies of the next decade, and why IT solution providers must pay more attention to this still-small-but-growing market segment.

The opportunity is there, the question is how can we take advantage? We believe with our proven program, on-demand infrastructure, and branded customer management system, anyone in the Technology space can now offer their own off-Site, HIPAA compliant, data online backup service.

Data boom to drive storage growth

Storage solutions market in South Asia and the Middle East is expected to grow over next few years, riding on a boom in data growth and enterprises’ need for business continuity, disaster recovery, and regulatory compliance.

Market in India, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Sri Lanka is estimated to climb from $653.4 million in 2008 to $2146.4 million in 2015, says Frost & Sullivan’s Emerging Storage Technologies and Adoption in South Asia and Middle East.

Business continuity, disaster recovery, and regulatory compliance. We are seeing these same responses from our channel Partners. Even the NSA is preparing to store Yottabytes of data by 2015.

The Data is out there, the question is how to get to it, how to maximize your resources to capture the market while it’s still experiencing hyper growth.