Isilon Systems Research Report Sample

As data continues to grow, management and efficiency problems plague storage administrators. Even with storage efficiency and capacity reduction technologies such as deduplication and thin provisioning available, users have not been able to stem growth entirely. According to ESG research, one-quarter of users are reporting unstructured capacity growth of more than 40% and 54% indicate that capacity is growing by at least 20% per year. ESG research also indicates that unstructured data growth is exceeding that of other data types—estimating 226 exabytes of archived file data by 2015.

This growth is likely to continue in the future. In part because the economy is reviving and in part because there is a need to accommodate the relentless increase in file data, organizations are increasing their NAS purchases. IT users tell ESG that they need a more scalable storage infrastructure to support rapid virtual machine growth as the physical scalability limits of traditional NAS storage systems become a real problem.