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Article: Gartner group: storage networking will rise. (Industry watch).
- Article from:
- Enterprise Systems Journal
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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At its Gartner Symposium last week in Orlando, Fla., Gartner Inc. said it expected storage networking to rise in numbers, as administrators need better ways to manage storage.
According to the firm, 80 percent of external storage will be networked by 2005. Because storage needs are growing exponentially, enterprises will turn to increasingly advanced tools to manage the storage.
Gartner says most enterprises plan for a doubling in storage capacity each year, but lack the resources to hire new administrators to manage the storage. Internet data centers see even greater rates of growth, seeing storage double in a quarter.
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