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Latest IT Market Study from TheInfoPro: 2012 is The Year of Storage Optimization

Study reveals slower budget growth than previous years; Big Data not ready for the prime time

NEW YORK, July 31, 2012 TheInfoPro, a service of 451 Research, released its latest storage study,

indicating slower budget growth than previous years. Covering the first half of 2012, TheInfoPro Storage

Study, identifies key initiatives to maximize resources including market factors and major players. This

periodic study is based on extensive interviews with storage professionals and primary decision-makers

at large and midsize enterprises in North America and Europe.

"After excellent growth in the last two years, storage budgets will grow more slowly in 2012 despite

expanding capacity," said Marco Coulter, TheInfoPro's Research Director of Storage. "While focused on

optimizing storage capacity and supporting server virtualization, some storage architects are

concurrently preparing to deliver cloud-like provisioning.

Mr. Coulter said key trends from the TheInfoPro Storage Study include:

Storage budget growth slows compared to 2011 as 6% fewer respondents identify as havingincreasing budgets in 2012. Midsize enterprises (MSE) see the most belt-tightening with only

36% planning to increase spending, down from 47%.

Networked capacity in large enterprises (LE) will grow a projected 26% this year. Drive choicesare changing and Fibre Channel drives lost predominance in 2011 purchases.

Automated tiering displaces backup data reduction/deduplication as the hottest technology instorage on TheInfoPros proprietary Technology Heat IndexTM. Implementation of other

optimization technologies is anticipated to grow including data reduction/deduplication,

compression, and thin provisioning.

Hybrid arrays, using solid-state alongside rotating disks in arrays, approaches majority use inenterprise datacenters, while new players abound for solid-state arrays and in server-installed.

Solid state vendors selected as exciting include: Fusion-io, Pure Storage, Nimbus Data, Nimble

Storage, Gridiron Sys, Kove.

Server virtualization is the leading driver of capacity growth remaining a predominantly FC SANdestination. Sixty seven percent (67%) of respondents have 80-100% of production serversconnected to FC SAN.

Fifty six (56%) percent of respondents have no plans for big data even beyond 2013.

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FC storage networks are predominant with 84% of respondents. As port counts increase Cisco isappearing in more data centers.

About TheInfoPro Storage Study

TheInfoPro Storage Study takes an in-depth look at key trends across the industry, and tracks the

performance of individual vendors. Now in its tenth year, Wave 16 of TheInfoPro Storage Study covers

1H2012 and was published in June 2012.TheInfoPros methodology uses extensive interviews with

professionals and primary decision-makers at large and midsize enterprises in North America and

Europe. Each interview explores key areas including the implementation and spending plans for over

thirty technologies, evaluations of vendors observed from business and product perspectives, IT

influences transforming the sector, and supporting decision processes. Results are collated into

comprehensive research reports providing business intelligence in the form of technological road maps,

budget trends, capacity and spending plans, along with vendor performance ratings. A sampling of

vendors covered in the Vendor Performance and Technology Roadmap components of the study

include: EMC, NetApp, Cisco, Brocade, HDS, IBM, HP, Symantec, Dell, CommVault, QLogic, Emulex,

Quantum, Sepaton, FalconStor, Virtual Instruments, and F5.

About TheInfoPro

TheInfoPro, a service of 451 Research, is widely regarded as "The Voice of the Customer", providing

independent, "real world" intelligence on key IT sectors includingCloud Computing,Information

Security,Networking,Servers & Virtualization, andStorage. Using one-on-one interviews conducted

within aproprietary networkcomposed of the worlds largest buyers and users of IT, TheInfoPro

provides data and insights that are used for strategic planning, technology benchmarking, competitive

analysis and vendor selection/negotiation. To learn more, https://www.451research.com/about-

theinfopro or email sales@451research.com.

About 451 Research

451 Research, a division of The 451 Group, is focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation. Thecompanys analysts provide critical and timely insight into the competitive dynamics of innovation in

emerging technology segments. Business value is delivered via daily concise and insightful published

research, periodic deeper--dive reports, data tools, market--sizing research, analyst advisory, and

conferences and events. Clients of the company at vendor, investor, service--provider and end--user

organizationsrely on 451 Researchs insight to support both strategic and tactical decision--making.

451 Research is headquartered in New York, with offices in key locations, including San Francisco,

Washington DC, London, Boston, Seattle and Denver.

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