This document summarizes the key findings from a storage industry report by TheInfoPro. It includes quotes from the Research Director Marco Coulter about trends in storage spending growth slowing, vendors seeing a backlash, and automated tiering being the hottest storage technology. The document also lists primary storage requirements and vendor rankings.

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3. “Growth is slowing compared to previous
years,” – Marco Coulter, Research Director of
Storage

4. “This year, we appear to be seeing a backlash against the leading vendors,” - Marco Coulter

5. “2012 is the year of optimization,” –
Marco Coulter.

6. “Automated tiering is
the hottest storage
technology on our
heat index this
study,” Marco Coulter

8. “Refreshing server
farms is akin to
renewing a car
fleet; today you …Refreshing storage arrays is more like
drive one car, moving house; you prepare and pack
tomorrow you get everything for the move, then you
into a different move it, then you make sure all the
car… boxes made it over,” Marco Coulter

9. Primary vs. Backup Storage Network
Requirement Rankings
Capacity Changes
Automated Tiering File Sharing and Sync Solid State/Flash
Virtualization File Systems Deduplication
Thin Provisioning Storage Appliances Drive Choices
Technology Non- Refresh Cycles vs
Cloud Storage
Adoption Causes Depreciation Cycles
Actifio · Avere Systems · Brocade · Cisco · CommVault · DataCore · Dell · EMC · Emulex · Fujitsu ·
Fusion-io · F5 Networks · HDS · HP · IBM · Kaminario · LSI · Microsoft · NetApp · Nimble Storage ·
Nutanix · Oracle · Panasas · Panzura · Pure Storage · QLogic · Quantum · Sepaton · Symantec ·
Tegile · Tintri · VCE · Veeam Software · Violin Memory · Virtual Instruments · VMware · XIO

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