Hold Everything: Storage Technology Facts and Figures

... And a Bigger Market

The storage networking market will continue to grow during the next several years, with vendors experiencing a five-year compound annual growth rate for revenue of about 10 percent through 2008.Source: Yankee Group

The 5% Solution

$12 billion, or 5 percent, of U.S. software spending in 2004 will be for operating systems and storage software, with about three-fifths for operating systems of servers, mainframes and storage hardware and the rest for PCs.Source: Forrester research

Sticky Business

The majority of large U.S. enterprises keep 85 percent or more of their business data on tape.Source: Forrester research