{"id":1938,"date":"2011-03-03T07:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T15:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=1938"},"modified":"2011-03-03T07:00:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T15:00:56","slug":"storage-more-data-but-more-options-to-deal-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/storage-more-data-but-more-options-to-deal-with-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Storage: More Data, but More Options to Deal with It"},"content":{"rendered":"

The high rate at which new data is being created and collected is causing many IT staffs to worry over how best to cope. \u00a0A survey conducted by InformationWeek <\/a>and presented by IT freelancer\u00a0Kurt Marko<\/a> found that, on average, organizations are seeing a growth rate in their data volumes of about 20 percent. \u00a0And a number of organizations are even seeing data volumes growing faster than 50 percent annually.<\/p>\n

Despite the need to manage more data, IT budgets may not be keeping up. \u00a0Budgets do look better this year, with as many as 55 percent saying that they expect their spending on IT to increase in 2011, but 26 percent of organizations say that their budget will remain flat, and 18 percent that cite reductions in their budget. \u00a0Luckily, while technology is enabling collection of ever more and larger data sets, technology is also developing to capture and manage big data. \u00a0Storage drive technology is \u00a0steadily enabling ever greater capacity and access speed at the same time that hardware costs are dropping.<\/p>\n

The InformationWeek survey asked participants to rank their top storage concerns. \u00a0The results were as follows:<\/p>\n