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Solid storage sales 'will grow by 75% a year'
Category: Data archiving
29 September, 2008
Companies recognise the benefits of solid state storage over tape-based methods and as a result sales of disk-based storage are expected to rise by 75 per cent a year until 2011, it is claimed.And tape sales will decline by a minimum of five per cent a year until 2011, Arun Taneja, the president of consultant and analysis firm Taneja Group, tells the Wall Street Journal.
While tape may be a cheaper way to store data, backing up takes longer and time is not a luxury for firms inundated with data growth rates, the group says.
According to market researcher IDC, the total capacity of storage systems that have been shipped increases by more than 50 per cent a year, which the journal attributes to businesses moving online and regulations concerning data storage and data compliance.
Non-critical data is often transferred to secondary disk-based storage - which is also used to store disaster recovery sites - and although reliable, data cannot be accessed as quickly as it would be if held in primary storage machines, the journal advises.
In related news, the Storage Networking Industry Association has announced a Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI) at the SNIA 2008 Storage Developer Conference.
