1. 2014 State of Storage Research Findings © 2014 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

2. If you just look at vendor financials, the enterprise storage business seems stuck in neutral. However, flat revenue numbers mask a scorching pace of technical innovation, ongoing double-digit capacity growth in enterprises, and dramatic changes in how and where businesses store data. Among almost 250 respondents to our InformationWeek 2014 State of Enterprise Storage Survey, all from organizations with 50 or more employees and involved in storage strategy or operations: >> 68% have data replication in production use. >> 61% use SSDs for general databases, up from 45% in 2013. >> 47% use Fibre Channel SANs, down from 51% last year. >> 31% say they keep enterprise database/data warehouse data indefinitely. >> 25% use multiprotocol arrays now and plan to add more in the future. In this report, we discuss changes on tap for storage admins this year: >> Solid state will augment hard drives throughout the storage ecosystem — use flash wisely, and you could get all the benefit for short money. >> Virtualization will help IT simplify, automate, and optimize data management, application placement, and ­capacity expansion via scale-out storage systems. >> Cloud services will become a legitimate tier in the enterprise storage hierarchy. But beware of new data silos. Respondent breakdown: 42% have 5,000 or more employees; 31% are over 10,000. Financial services, education, and IT vendors are well represented, and 38% are IT director/manager or IT executive management (C-level/VP) level. Want more? Visit InformationWeek ReportsInformationWeek Reports Executive Summary v

3. Storage volumes continue to rise © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

4. Major jump in 50% to 74% growth rate © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

5. Big data makes presence known © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

6. So much for SharePoint decline © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

7. Email growth steady © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

8. More deletion of older email? © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

9. “No policy” same as “indefinite” © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

10. Any smoking guns in all that old data? © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

11. Fibre Channel holds its own © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

12. Cloud APIs strong out of the gate © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

13. Snapshot use on the rise © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

14. Encryption use should be 100% © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

15. SSDs and analytics better together © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

16. I/O QoS. Yes, it’s a thing © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

17. Little movement on SSD form factor © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

18. Most growth in 40% and up © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

19. Most growth in 40% and up © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

20. All-solid-state less desirable than expected © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

21. D2D2T use slides © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

22. Ethernet on the rise © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

23. Reflection of heterogeneous storage © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

24. Disaster recovery confidence up. False security? © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

25. Automation plans slip © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

26. Storage virtualization use creeps up © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

27. Many on the fence about file virtualization © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

28. Testing is key to finding flaws © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

29. Significant jump in comprehensive platform use © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

30. Creeping into the cloud © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

31. Main worries remain consistent © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

32. Storage hardware vendors take note © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

33. Software smackdown © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

34. Scale out starting strong © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

35. Scale out vs. consolidation © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

36. HP, IBM, EMC lead list © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

37. Oracle/Sun posts gains © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

38. Big vendors consolidate share © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

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40. Revenue © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

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43. Size of IT organization © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved

44. Research Synopsis Survey Name InformationWeek 2014 State of Enterprise Storage Survey Survey Date January 2014 Region North America Number of Respondents 242 at organizations with 50 or more employees Purpose To gauge the state of storage technology adoption in the enterprise Methodology InformationWeek surveyed 242 business technology decision-makers involved with storage at North American organizations with 50 or more employees. The survey was conducted online, and respondents were recruited via an email invitation containing an embedded link to the survey. The email invitation was sent to qualified InformationWeek subscribers. Want more? Visit InformationWeek ReportsInformationWeek Reports © 2013 Property of UBM Tech; All Rights Reserved