Abstract
This IDC study evaluates enterprise storage power and cooling costs in light of
the economic crisis that began in 2008, the increasing adoption of storage
efficiency technologies, and the change in assumptions around the adoption of
more efficient hardware technology (e.g., small form factor HDDs and SSDs).
"The economic crisis has changed the current reality, as well as the future.
However, one behavior continues to stay true: the storing of digital content.
IDC knows of no company that has made a decision to stop storing data. That
said, in light of this extreme era of cost containment, behaviors and
assumptions have changed. Because of this, not only were we compelled to
refresh our outlook on the costs to power and cool enterprise storage but also
to analyze the costs to manage it - just how much enterprise storage-related
money is spent beyond the storage hardware acquisition costs? More than the
hardware cost itself." David Reinsel, group vice president, Storage and
Semiconductors.
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