Content Depots are Poised to Become Major Disruptors of Existing Storage Systems Business Models, IDC Reveals
30 Sep 2008
- IDC Press Release
FRAMINGHAM, Mass.,
September 30, 2008 – The continued explosion in creation and storage of
unstructured data and the need to generate more copies of data for
availability, analytics, and archiving will be primary drivers of new storage
system developments over the next five years. The most significant new
development in storage consumption, however, is the emergence of "content
depots" as a major consumer of enterprise disk storage capacity. These
content depots are primarily in the business of gathering, organizing, and
providing access to large quantities of digital content. According to a new
study from IDC, these content depots will consume 17.4% of new enterprise disk
storage capacity shipped in 2008, but only account for 5.1% of all spending, reflecting their focus
on deploying storage solutions at very low costs.
