{"id":73,"date":"2020-02-09T21:20:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T19:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/?p=73"},"modified":"2020-02-14T10:13:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T08:13:17","slug":"cloud-and-backup-top-storage-priorities-for-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tekmart.co.za\/t-blog\/cloud-and-backup-top-storage-priorities-for-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud and backup top storage priorities for 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time-approximately:<\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

Deploying the cloud for primary and secondary storage and backup and archiving project top project priorities in 2019. SAN, NAS and hyper-convergence also prominent<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Antony Adshead<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Storage Editor – Computer Weekly – ComputerWeekly.com<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Published: 13 Feb 2019 9:36<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cloud-based initiatives and backup and archiving dominate UK IT departments\u2019 storage projects for 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cloud storage<\/a> and backup\/archiving projects feature in five of the top six storage priorities reported by more than 250 respondents to this year\u2019s Computer Weekly\/TechTarget IT Priorities research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Top of the list for primary storage projects is cloud backup<\/a> as a service, which is a priority in 2019 for 33% of those asked. After that come virtual server backup (29%), backup software refreshes (27%), public cloud storage<\/a> (26%) and data archiving (23%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of the top six, the only one not directly related to cloud storage or data protection is data management, which is a priority for 28% of respondents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traditional shared storage is still very much a key primary storage initiative for many IT departments, however, with about one-fifth planning storage area network (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS)<\/a> projects in 2019 (21% and 19% respectively).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, hybrid storage arrays will be a focus for 16% of those asked, while 12% plan object storage<\/a> deployments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hyper-converged infrastructure<\/a> (HCI) was listed as a key primary storage initiative for 2019 by 14% of respondents, although elsewhere in the survey 21% said they would use HCI in production and 67% said they expected the share of HCI in their organisation\u2019s compute capacity to increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked about secondary storage projects, the cloud and backup\/archiving also dominated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cloud backup as a service came out on top again, with 37% citing it as a key initiative for 2019. After that are backup software projects (30%) and data archiving (26%). These are followed by projects in on-premise disaster recovery (21%) and backup hardware deployments (19%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The survey also asked how much storage capacity organisations retain. The largest number (32%) of those asked have between 10TB and 99TB, while 30% have less than 10TB. Meanwhile, 17% have between 100TB and 249TB and 5% have more than 10PB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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