As Content-Centric Customers Reshape Requirements, Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Capacity Shipments Continue to Double Every Two Years, IDC Reveals.FRAMINGHAM, Mass. -- Every few years, overall demand for storage systems is boosted by a major industry shift. Through 2012, the new accelerator will be the emergence of more content-centric businesses, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. IDC. Worldwide disk storage systems capacity shipments will continue to more than double every two years, growing at a compound annual growth rate of nearly 53% from 2007 to 2012, while spending will pass the $34 billion mark in 2012. From spending and terabyte One trillion bytes. Also TB, Tbyte and T-byte. See tera and space/time. (unit) terabyte - 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes = 1024 gigabytes or roughly 10^12 bytes. (Note the spelling - one 'r'). See prefix. shipment perspectives, capacity-optimized storage will conquer more than half of the market in 2012. While past drivers, such as the digitalization digitalization /dig·i·tal·iza·tion/ (dij?i-tal-i-za´shun) the administration of digitalis or one of its glycosides in a dosage schedule designed to produce and then maintain optimal therapeutic concentrations of its cardiotonic of content, disk-based data protection, and long-term data retention, continue to be important to storage capacity growth, the focus for organizations will increasingly be on boosting storage utilization levels through new technologies such as thin provisioning Thin provisioning[1] is a mechanism that applies to large-scale centralized computer disk storage systems, SANs, and storage virtualization systems. Thin provisioning allows space to be easily allocated to servers, on a just-enough and just-in-time basis. and data deduplication See deduplication. . "Multiple business trends and new technologies will force a restructuring of storage systems and the storage industry over the next five years. New enterprise datacenter designs based on the principles of massive consolidation, extensive virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. , and unified connectivity will drive new storage systems designs, including greater use of tier-zero storage leveraging solid state drives. The most important new force is the emergence of content-rich business applications in areas such as telecommunications, media/entertainment, and Web 2.0," said Natalya Yezhkova, research manager for Storage Systems at IDC. "One of the most critical challenges for the storage industry over the next several years will be to gauge the impact of new network-centric and content-centric datacenters on more traditional customers," said Richard Villars, vice president for Storage Systems at IDC. "These businesses are redefining the rules when it comes to system density, balancing performance versus capacity, and price per gigabyte One billion bytes. Also GB, Gbyte and G-byte. See giga and space/time. (unit) gigabyte - 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes = 1024 megabytes. Roughly the amount of data required to encode a human gene sequence (including all the redundant codons). See prefix. . As more organizations begin to create and archive large pools of file-based content, many will want solutions that have similar features/functions/price points to those being delivered to leading content depots." IDC's study, Worldwide Disk Storage Systems 2008-2012 Forecast: Content-Centric Customers -- Reshaping Market Demand (Doc #212177), forecasts the worldwide disk storage systems market for 2008-2012 and discusses assumptions and major market trends. The study focuses on end-user consumption of external disk storage systems, and computes the revenue, terabytes, and price per gigabyte for each operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. and hardware platform. About IDC IDC is the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services advisory services advisory services provided to the public, in their capacity as owners and managers of animals, are an important part of veterinary science. 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