Storage User Demand Study – IDC
10% of internal storage capacity in corporate datacenters installed in servers dedicated to storing data
By Jean Jacques Maleval | September 26, 2013 at 2:40 pmTo read this report from IDC, click on:
Storage User Demand Study – Fall Edition, Many Uses of Internal Storage 2012
by Natalya Yezhkovz, analyst at IDC
While servers with internal storage are most commonly used for typical server workloads, such as database, enterprise applications, and email server, nearly half of the survey respondents also use some of servers deployed in their datacenters as standalone storage arrays or storage appliances.