TheInfoPro announced that over 12 percent of Fortune 1000 (F1000) organizations consider archiving as one of their top storage initiatives, and 25 percent listed poor archiving capabilities as one of the key reasons for storage growth. The latest TIP Wave Storage Study finds that an average F1000 enterprise has over 250 TB of storage space dedicated to archive-related content.

The capacities of these archive tiers are anticipated to grow 52 percent by the end of 2007, as organizations build out archiving tiers, increasing the average from three to four classes of storage.

A primary driver for this increased attention to archiving capabilities is legal and regulatory compliance, which often calls for the preservation of more data for longer periods of time. Approximately 40% of F1000 organizations indicate a 10% or more increase in spending on legal and regulatory compliance, with a primary focus on improving archiving faculties to meet the legislative and industry-specific standards set forth by mandates such as the Securities Exchange Commission Rule 17A-4, the USA PATRIOT Act, and the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCIDSS).

"As organizations adjust their IT priorities to prove compliancy with federal regulations which require maintenance of data for extended periods of time, storage capabilities, particularly archiving data and intelligent data classification, have come to the forefront of data management," said Robert Stevenson, TIP’s Managing Director, Storage. "As a result, creating efficient, long-term email, application and e-discovery storage methodologies have become critical for F1000 organizations -- and even more troublesome in smaller companies -- as many applications, both legacy and new, have limited archiving capabilities."

About the study

Over 150 Fortune 1000 end users were interviewed for the TIP Wave 9 Storage Study, providing commentary and insight on their storage adoption plans, management strategies, and vendor performance. Storage companies participating in the study include: Acopia, Akorri, BlueArc, CA, Cisco Systems, CommVault Systems, Compellent Technologies, DataCore Software Corp., Data Domain Inc., Diligent, EMC, Emulex Corp., FalconStor Software, Finisar, Hitachi Data Systems, Illuminator Inc., IBM, LeftHand, MonoSphere, Microsoft, Network Appliance, Packeteer, PGP, Pillar Data Systems, QLogic, Quantum, Riverbed Technology, Sanovi Technologies Corp., Seagate, Softek, Sun Microsystems, Symantec Corp., and WysDM Software.

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