Storage Admins Plan to Spend More on Data Protection in 2011: Survey

Source: eWEEK

Author: Chris Preimesberger

Some 80 percent of those polled by CommVault reported that they will allocate as much as 20 percent of their budgets on data protection hardware, software, services/support and media.

Several key IT researchers already have reported that global and U.S. IT spending in 2011 is expected to increase modestly over that of 2010, thanks to an uptick in the general ecomony.

Now some storage-specific market research is coming to the fore. CommVault on Jan. 10 released the results of its IT Storage Spending Survey, which polled a cross-section of more than 350 of its global software customers.

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