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The explosive use of the Internet, data warehousing, and e-mail, and the increased use of personal technology is creating an unprecedented demand to store information. Significant killer applications such as voice and speech recognition, digital language translation, digital photography, MP3 audio and MPEG video technologies, desktop video conferencing, and set-top boxes/web TV are also helping drive storage demand. The result is that while individuals are exponentially driving the demand for information, corporations are realizing the value of data and investing their resources accordingly. Dataquest projects the overall storage market for multi-user servers will grow from $31.7 billion in 1999 to $72.3 billion in 2003 in aggregate, representing a 24.7% CAGR.
Storage networking has emerged as one of the
highest growth areas of storage. It is estimated storage networking revenues will grow from $508 million in 1999 to $3.5 billion in 2003, representing an 90.3%
CAGR.
Data Consumption Growth
Data Storage Management Software
Market Projections
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The overall data storage
management software market is expected to generate revenues of $5.3 billion
by 2003, up from $2.1 billion in 1998. This represents an average growth
rate of 19.4% per year through 2002. 
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Sales of software to improve
system reliability, availability, and scalability (RAS) will account for
another $1.6 billion in sales in 2003.
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The combined data storage
management and RAS software markets should approach $7 billion by 2003. This
represents an increase of 250% from $2 billion in 1996.
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The storage networking market
will grow 89% compounded annually between 1999 and 2003.
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IT spending on storage will
increase from 4% of the IT budget to more than 15% by 2003.
Declining Storage Cost
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Over the past 5 years, the cost
of server and storage hardware has decreased an average of 30% per year
while maintaining the same level of performance.
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From 1994-1998, a MB of storage
dropped from $1.99 to less than $0.26. By 2002, this same amount of storage
is forecasted to cost less than $0.03, representing a 98% drop in eight
years.
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For a 1% reduction in cost, there
is a corresponding 4% increase in usage. 
Storage Area Network (SAN) Market
Projections
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Within the mainframe arena, SANs
already represent upwards of 25% of data center traffic. Outside of the
mainframe area, SANs are expected to account for 25% of external disk
storage and approximately 50% of multi-user tape storage by 2003,
representing a potential market worth $9 billion and $400 million,
respectively.
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Assuming the traditional
software-to-hardware ratios (1:5) hold true, this would translate into a
$1.88 billion market on the software side by 2003.
IT Acceptance of SANs
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36% of IT managers surveyed in a
ComputerWorld survey view SANs as an important technology. 
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IBM/ IDC estimates that 70% of
all medium- and large-sized organizations will have implemented some form of
SAN within 3 years.
Measuring ROI
Cost of Downtime
Cost of Managing
Storage
Increased Availability
Requirements
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