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7/31/2019 StorageFactsandFigures-2009
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Storage Facts, Figures, Best Practices and Estimates
Fred Moore, President
Horison Information Strategies http://www.horison.com
This table is compiled from a wide variety of sources and is intended to serve as a planningguideline for storage and data management planning activities.
Average annual digital storage demandrate (primary occurrence of data, allplatforms)
35-40% for all data (2010-2011)20-25 for production data>60% for fixed content, compliance and archive
Amount of digital data stored on Unix,Windows and Linux systems WW
>90%
Average disk allocation levels for z/OS(eSeries mainframes using DFSMSsuite)
60-80+%
Average disk allocation levels foriSeries (AS/400 servers)
60-75%
Average disk allocation levels forUnix/Linux systems
30-45%
Average magnetic disk allocation levelsfor Windows systems
25-40%
Average annual disk drive areal densityincrease
35-50%
Average annual disk drive performanceimprovement (seek, latency and datarate)
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Average cost to build a Tier 3 datacenter
~$500 per square foot
Electricity consumed by hi-densityblade servers
>7kW/rack and > 30kW/enclosure
Annual average rate increase in US for
electricity
15 - 40% (depending on geography)
Who gets the IT energy bill? Facilities team 56%, IT team only 3%
Average tape cartridge utilization levelsfor integrated virtual tape systems
60-80%
Typical range of non-mainframe diskdata managed per administrator
500GB 28TB
Typical amount of disk data managedper administrator (z/OS, mainframe)
>75 TB
Estimated range of automated tape datamanaged per administrator (allplatforms)
40TB to >1EB (varies widely based on librarysize)
Percentage of storage staff (non-mainframe) time spent on storageprovisioning
22%
Percentage of storage staff (non-mainframe) time spent on storagemigrations
13%
Percentage of storage staff (non-mainframe) time spent on backupadministration
11%
Annual growth rate of unwanted e-mailmessage traffic
>350%
WW number of mainframe machinesinstalled (2008)
8,000 9,000
WW number of mainframe sites ~4,500
Maximum possible distance fromprimary data center for synchronousreplication
50 miles
Number of new mainframe customerssince 2000
500
Percentage of customers retaining e-mail archives over 7 years
9%
Percentage of all e-mail traffic that is
unwanted material
~90%
Percentage of attacks form e-mail virus 68%
Percentage of all companies that dontexpect to move data to the cloud
61% (July 13 09 CW survey p27)
Where does the CIO report? 41% to CEO/pres, 23% to CFO, 16% to COO
Percent of companies citing employees 77%
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as the most likely source of hacking
Percentage of US adults with more than200GB of storage capacity
10% (approximately 30 million)
Percentage of digital data stored onremovable media (primarily magnetic
tape)
~75%
Percentage of digital data stored onmobile (portable/personal) technologies
50-60%
Number of new (1st round) data storagecompanies funded in 2000
92
Number of new (1st round) data storagecompanies funded in 2007
5
Number of storage acquisitions in 2008 67
Number of new small businessescreated in the US in 2005
550,000
Average revenues of InformationWeek
500 companies in 2008
$11.03 B (was $9.0B in 2004 and $12.4B in
2001)IT as % of revenues in 2001 Fortune1000
3.88%
IT as % of revenues in 2008 Fortune1000
2.80% (declining as a % of revenue)
Percentage of IT organizationsmanaging more than 10TB of disk data
39%
Average percentage of IT budget in theUS spent on IT salaries and benefits
32%
Average percentage of IT budget in theUS spent on compliance
5%
Average percentage of IT budget in theUS spent on hardware
16.3 % (projected to be 13.9% in 2011)
Average percentage of IT budget in theUS spent on services
23.3% (projected to be 29.7% in 2011)
Average percentage of IT budget in theUS spent on personnel
19.8% (projected to be 12.7% in 2011 - only ifhealth-care costs are not covered)
Average percentage of IT budget in theUS spent on support and maintenance
4.3% (projected to be 4.8% in 2011 - includesenergy)
Number of mid-market firms in the USin 2005 (100-999 employees)
93,876
Percentage of all IT jobs in businesses
with fewer than 99 employees
72%
Percentage of WW IT workersconsidered mobile in 2009
30%
Projected size of Indias IT servicesindustry in 2010
$60 B
Percentage of businesses who perform aregular interval DR testing plan
52%
Percentage of businesses who test DR 26%
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plan once per year
Percentage of businesses who only testmission-critical apps for DR
47%
Percentage of businesses who test allapps for DR
22%
Percentage of businesses who takebackup tapes offsite daily, weekly, andmonthly?
Daily 56%. Weekly -32%. Monthly - 4%.
Data selected from a wide variety of IT industry sources.
Compiled semi-annually by:
Fred Moore, President
Horison Information Strategies http://www.horison.com
Sept. 2009
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