Isilon Research Report Sample

Managing data growth was cited as a top priority by one quarter of those IT managers surveyed in ESG’s 2010 spending intentions survey, putting it among the top five priorities for IT managers and only slightly behind improving security, backup, and network infrastructure.

Business as usual in the storage environment is no longer acceptable; IT is starting to collapse under the weight of the sheer amount of data it has to store. “Spreadsheet management systems” cannot track what data lives on which LUNs when there are tens or hundreds of thousands of LUNs in the networked storage environment. Separate storage growth forecasts based on block and file protocols are not useful when, at the end of the day, all anyone wants is storage capacity to use when and where they need it. What’s more, standalone silos with sub-50% utilization rates create too much waste in terms of management, floor space, and power and cooling.