Storage Technology Adoption, Projects Priorities and Products/Features Needs in US and Europe

Coldago Research, a market research and analysis firm, ran an end-users survey (link not anymore available) in January 2020 to learn about storage related IT projects needs, collect users perceptions and understand their technologies adoptions.

By end-users we mean companies that pick, deploy and used IT products to support their business activity and mission.

The survey considered 2 populations – US and Europe – with respectively 1,123 US companies and 560 European ones. For Europe, it was limited study to UK, Germany and France. Each of these countries represents approximately 1/3 of the total European users.

Users belong to the enterprise and SMB segments with 50% from each segment. Companies span several verticals in term of industries and use-cases.

The study addresses technology adoption, projects priorities and products/features needs for a total of 20 questions.

Each graphic is sorted by descending order for US.

Questions about technologies and products
#1: What are the technologies you will consider for new projects in 2020?

Questions about technologies and projects
#2: What are your top 3 priorities in storage (and data management) for 2020?

Questions about technologies and purchase options
#3: How do you address storage capacity needs?

Questions about technologies and processes
#4: How to you protect data?

Questions about technologies and processes
#5: If you use Enterprise SaaS applications, how do you protect your data?

Questions about technologies and processes
#6: If you use tape, for which role?

Questions about technologies and product behaviors
#7: Did you adopt, currently assess or plan to use a SDS* solution soon?

Questions about technologies
#8: If you use server virtualization, how is storage attached?

Questions about technologies and products
#9: Do you use or plan to use vSAN or alternatives?

Questions about technologies
#10: Do you use or plan to use Containers?

#10′: With a stateful or stateless mode?

Questions about technologies
#11: If you use(d) SAN (FC or IP), did/do you and plan to adopt into NVMe-over-Fabrics? #11′ With which transport layer?

With which transport layer?

Questions about technologies and product features
#12: Did What are the features* you need and think you will deploy in 2020?

Questions about technologies and vendors
#13: What are the top 3 brands you will consider in block storage?

Questions about technologies and vendors
#14: What are the top 3 brands you will consider in file storage?

Questions about technologies and vendors
#15: What are the top 3 brands you will consider in object storage?

Questions about technologies and vendors
#16: What are the top 3 brands you will consider in secondary storage?

Questions about technologies and vendors
#17: What are the top 3 brands you will consider in HCI (including server virtualization)?