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Summary Results | November 2019

Trends in Enterprise Data Storage



Survey Summary▶ Between September and November 2019, Gatepoint Research invited selected IT executives to participate

in a survey themed Trends in Enterprise Data Storage.

▶ Candidates were invited via email and 152 executives have participated to date.

▶ Management levels represented are predominantly senior decision makers: 8% hold the title CxO or VP,

51% are Directors, and 41% are Managers.

▶ Survey participants represent firms from a wide variety of industries including business services,

construction, consumer services, education, financial services, healthcare, media, manufacturing (general,

primary and high tech), mining, retail trade, public administration, retail trade, transportation, utilities, and

wholesale trade.

▶ Responders work for firms with a wide range of revenue levels:

▪ 54% work in Fortune 1000 companies with revenues over $1.5 billion;

▪ 20% work in Large firms whose revenues are between $500 million and $1.5 billion;

▪ 8% work in Mid-Market firms with $250 million to $500 million in revenues;

▪ 18% work in Small companies with less than $250 million in revenues.

▶ 100% of responders participated voluntarily; none were engaged using telemarketing.



Executive OverviewAs the amount of data we generate explodes, so does the cost of managing it. The majority of this cost

is not storage, but active data management - replicating and backing up, archiving and retrieving.. And

unstructured data essentially increases “cost” by increasing backup time and decreasing recovery

reliability. How are organizations rising to the challenges of enterprise data storage?

This survey asks respondents to report:

▶ Does their data management plan give them a competitive advantage?

▶ How quickly is their data storage growing? Is it manageable?

▶ How much of their data is unstructured?

▶ Do they know what percentage of their enterprise data is “hot” – accessed in the past year?

▶ What would they like to improve about their data management process?



Does your data management plan give you a competitive advantage?

Though most respondents believe their data management plan gives them a competitive edge, 33% admit they have not considered data management as a competitive tool.

Yes

51%

No

16%

We've not

really thought

about data

management

in that way

33%



How would you define your data storage growth?

62% characterize their data storage growth as steady, but manageable; 24% say it is growing fast -presumably becoming more difficult to manage. 5% frankly admit it is getting out of control.

9%

62%

24%

5%0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

Slow growth Steady, but manageablegrowth

Fast growth Growing exponentially and/orgetting out of control



What is your volume of unstructured data?

32% of respondents report having 500TB or more of unstructured data and nearly a quarter are not sure.

29%

15%

13% 12%

6%1%

24%

0%

5%

10%

15%

20%

25%

30%

35%

Fewer than 250Terabytes

251 to 500Terabytes

501 to 999Terabytes

1 to 5 Petabytes 6 to 10 Petabytes More than 11Petabytes

I'm not sure



What data storage vendor(s) do you currently work with?

Most widely used data storage vendors among respondents are Dell EMC, Microsoft Azure and AWS.

43%

41%

35%

31%

24%

20%

13%

13%

13%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%

Dell EMC

Microsoft Azure

AWS

Microsoft Windows Server

NetApp

IBM

Pure Storage

HPE

Other



Can you determine how much of your enterprise data has been accessed in the past year (a.k.a. “hot data”)?

Most respondents (58%) admit they do not have the capability to determine what percentage of their enterprise data is “hot.”

Yes

42%

No

58%



Is there anything you would like to improve about your data management process?

Understandably, 39% of those surveyed would like to reduce data storage costs. More surprisingly, nearly as many (34%) express the desire to be able to tell hot data from cold - and 31% demand better visibility.

39%

34%

31%

28%

22%

15%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45%

I'd like to significantly reduce storage costs

I'd like to be able to differentiate hot data from cold

I need better visibility

I want users to be unaffected during

and after data archiving

I need faster, more reliable, backups

Other



What is your next investment step for data storage in the next 12 months?

Over half of respondents plan to invest in cloud storage within the coming year – nearly twice as many as are buying more storage.

54%

29%

27%

15%

14%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%

Moving to Cloud storage

Buying more storage

Modernizing the backup process/system

Moving to Flash storage

Other



What is your preferred approach for future storage purchases?

44% of respondents intend to look beyond their current vendors for upcoming storage purchases.

65%

44%

9%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

Moving forward with existing vendors Reviewing different solutions Other



Profile of Responders:

Industry Sectors

Responders represent a wide variety of industries.

Business Services

18%

Financial Services

18%

Wholesale

Trade

11%

Mfg - High Tech

10%

Mfg - General

9%

Mfg - Primary

7%Retail Trade

7%Utilities

5%

Healthcare

4%

Transportation

4%

Consumer Services

3%

Construction

2% Media

2%

Mining

1%

Public Administration

1%

Education

1%

Other

18%




Revenue

54% of those surveyed work in Fortune 1000 companies with revenues over $1.5 billion.

>$1.5billion

54%$500 million -

$1.5 billion

20%

$250 - 500 million

8%

<$250 million

18%




Job Level

59% of those surveyed hold Director or executive level positions in their organizations.

CxO

3%VP

5%

Director

51%

Manager

41%



Komprise empowers businesses to take control of

their data. Komprise Intelligent Data Management is

the foundation to proactive data management by

analyzing billions of files across storage silos and

moving them to the right storage. Proactive data

management is key to shrink backups. Partners

include: HPE, IBM, NetApp, EMC, Pure Storage, Google,

AWS, and Azure.

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