State of Unstructured Data Management Report

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Persistent data growth is straining IT budgets, causing more organizations to prioritize cloud data migrations but data visibility, planning and management across hybrid clouds remains a key roadblock.

Data Growth and Spending: Unstructured Data is Growing
• Over 60% of enterprises are managing more than 1PB of data and nearly 40% are managing more than 5PB of data.
• 65% of organizations spend more than 30% of their IT budgets on storage and management: One-third (33%) are spending 30-40% of IT budget on storage and data protection, while 31% are spending more than 40%.
• 62% will spend more on storage in 2021 vs. 2020.
• One-third (33%) of enterprises acknowledge that over 50% of their
data is cold, while nearly 20% don’t know.

Storage Modernization: Getting More Data to the Cloud is a Key Priority
• 50% of enterprises have data stored in a mix of on- premises and cloud-based storage.
• 43% are moving to or buying more cloud storage and 40% are investing in modernizing backup and DR systems in the next 12 months.
• Nearly half will spend more than 50% of IT budgets on cloud storage in the next 2 years.