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By: Lucas Mearian
26 January 2010 | IT World – Canada | Original Article

Survey suggests companies are spending significant dollars on thin provisioning and data de-duplication technology. …

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By: Dave Simpson
25 January 2010 | INFOTOR – Bits & Bytes Blog | Original Article

January 25, 2010 – Results from a recent end-user survey conducted by TheInfoPro research firm included a few …

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25 January 2010 – Robert Stevenson, Managing Director of Storage Research and Advisory - After a year of heavy server and storage consolidation that slowed big-ticket spending throughout IT organizations, TheInfoPro released new data today showing further effects of the recession on Fortune 1000 (F1000) and midsize enterprise (MSE) storage organizations. 

The in-depth study reveals that while 45% of F1000 respondents plan to increase storage spending in the coming months, 29% still expect major budget decreases. In contrast, 41% of MSEs plan to increase storage spending this year, while 25% expect further reductions.

Of the 300 plus interviews conducted, most show that major spending increases won’t resume until new business application installs once again create massive demands on storage needs, In the interim, storage shops will focus on productivity improvement and hardware inventory adjustments to prepare for virtualization and cloud support needs.

For more specifics on the data, please visit:  http://www.theinfopro.com/2010/01/tippr-012510/

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Deduplication and primary storage data reduction using deduplication tops lists in terms of demand and anticipated spending

New York – January 25, 2010 – After a year of heavy server and storage consolidation that slowed big-ticket spending throughout IT organizations …

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14 January 2010 - We have been hearing in recent interviews that aging hardware is a concern for networking managers. In August 2009, aging hardware was certainly near the top of the list of concerns for networking professionals; many organizations tried to get more useful life out of their hardware during the economic conditions in 2009. While we have questioned this in the past, we decided to take the pulse of the enterprise community once again and find out whether expectations for increasing the useful life of networking hardware were increasing or not. Reliability of hardware has been the downfall of a number of providers over the years, but it appears that a useful life of five years is the consensus number at this point. All that said, the rising level of concern about aging hardware may be ushering in a new refresh cycle, in time to take advantage of new data center network architecture concepts.
 
Key data points supporting our position:

• The single largest respondent group rated networking hardware useful life as being five years (42%), while 20% indicated a useful life of six years or more.
• Nearly 20% of respondents thus far indicated that they wait until a networking hardware unit fails before considering its useful life to have expired.
• While 49% of respondents cited that the useful life of hardware is remaining constant, about an equal number of organizations cited an increasing useful life and decreasing useful life.

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