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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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