Storage Facts, Figures, Best Practices and Estimates

Fred Moore, President Horison Information Strategies http://www.horison.com

This table is compiled from a wide variety of sources and is intended to serve as a planning guideline for storage and data management planning activities. Average annual digital storage demand rate (primary occurrence of data, all platforms) Amount of digital data stored on Unix, Windows and Linux systems WW Average disk allocation levels for z/OS (eSeries mainframes using DFSMS suite) Average disk allocation levels for iSeries (AS/400 servers) Average disk allocation levels for Unix/Linux systems Average magnetic disk allocation levels for Windows systems Average annual disk drive areal density increase Average annual disk drive performance improvement (seek, latency and data rate) Increase in disk drive capacity per actuator since the first disk drive in 1956 Increase in native tape cartridge capacity since the first tape cartridge in 1984 Recommended data center power consumption level Power usage breakdown in typical data center 35-40% for all data (2010-2011) 20-25 for production data >60% for fixed content, compliance and archive >90% 60-80+% 60-75% 30-45% 25-40% 35-50% <4% (mostly from data rate, as any seek time improvement is minimal) 400,000x (5MB to 2000 GB or 2 TB) 5,000x (200MB to 1,000 GB or 2.0TB compressed @ 2x) 100 - 500 watts per square foot Chiller 33%, IT gear 30% (servers = 35%, storage = 30%), UPS 18%, AC 9%

Average cost to build a Tier 3 data center Electricity consumed by hi-density blade servers Annual average rate increase in US for electricity Who gets the IT energy bill? Average tape cartridge utilization levels for integrated virtual tape systems Typical range of non-mainframe disk data managed per administrator Typical amount of disk data managed per administrator (z/OS, mainframe) Estimated range of automated tape data managed per administrator (all platforms) Percentage of storage staff (nonmainframe) time spent on storage provisioning Percentage of storage staff (nonmainframe) time spent on storage migrations Percentage of storage staff (nonmainframe) time spent on backup administration Annual growth rate of unwanted e-mail message traffic WW number of mainframe machines installed (2008) WW number of mainframe sites Maximum possible distance from primary data center for synchronous replication Number of new mainframe customers since 2000 Percentage of customers retaining email archives over 7 years Percentage of all e-mail traffic that is unwanted material Percentage of attacks form e-mail virus Percentage of all companies that dont expect to move data to the cloud Where does the CIO report? Percent of companies citing employees

~$500 per square foot >7kW/rack and > 30kW/enclosure 15 - 40% (depending on geography) Facilities team 56%, IT team only 3% 60-80% 500GB 28TB >75 TB 40TB to >1EB (varies widely based on library size) 22% 13% 11% >350% 8,000 9,000 ~4,500 50 miles 500 9% ~90% 68% 61% (July 13 09 CW survey p27) 41% to CEO/pres, 23% to CFO, 16% to COO 77%

as the most likely source of hacking Percentage of US adults with more than 200GB of storage capacity Percentage of digital data stored on removable media (primarily magnetic tape) Percentage of digital data stored on mobile (portable/personal) technologies Number of new (1st round) data storage companies funded in 2000 Number of new (1st round) data storage companies funded in 2007 Number of storage acquisitions in 2008 Number of new small businesses created in the US in 2005 Average revenues of InformationWeek 500 companies in 2008 IT as % of revenues in 2001 Fortune 1000 IT as % of revenues in 2008 Fortune 1000 Percentage of IT organizations managing more than 10TB of disk data Average percentage of IT budget in the US spent on IT salaries and benefits Average percentage of IT budget in the US spent on compliance Average percentage of IT budget in the US spent on hardware Average percentage of IT budget in the US spent on services Average percentage of IT budget in the US spent on personnel Average percentage of IT budget in the US spent on support and maintenance Number of mid-market firms in the US in 2005 (100-999 employees) Percentage of all IT jobs in businesses with fewer than 99 employees Percentage of WW IT workers considered mobile in 2009 Projected size of Indias IT services industry in 2010 Percentage of businesses who perform a regular interval DR testing plan Percentage of businesses who test DR

10% (approximately 30 million) ~75% 50-60% 92 5 67 550,000 $11.03 B (was $9.0B in 2004 and $12.4B in 2001) 3.88% 2.80% (declining as a % of revenue) 39% 32% 5% 16.3 % (projected to be 13.9% in 2011) 23.3% (projected to be 29.7% in 2011) 19.8% (projected to be 12.7% in 2011 - only if health-care costs are not covered) 4.3% (projected to be 4.8% in 2011 - includes energy) 93,876 72% 30% $60 B 52% 26%

plan once per year Percentage of businesses who only test mission-critical apps for DR Percentage of businesses who test all apps for DR Percentage of businesses who take backup tapes offsite daily, weekly, and monthly?

47% 22% Daily 56%. Weekly -32%. Monthly - 4%.

Data selected from a wide variety of IT industry sources. Compiled semi-annually by: Fred Moore, President Horison Information Strategies http://www.horison.com Sept. 2009