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Data Storage Survey Surprisingly Negative

Author Bruce Hoard reports that most medium and large enterprises overlook storage when they implement their virtual operating environments, in his blog featured on Virtualization Review. Using a recent survey from DataCore Software, Hoard says there was some negative results including a surprising 73 percent of organizations who have yet to begin taking advantage of cloud services for storage needs. In addition, 66 percent of respondents who have implemented server virtualization report the biggest issue is rising costs of storage.

"’Nearly one in four (22 percent) of IT administrators admitted that they feel 'locked-in' to their storage hardware provider,’ DataCore said. ‘One third of these respondents underestimated the costs that server/desktop virtualization would have on their storage budgets. Accordingly, 41 percent of the overall respondents are saddled with two or more different storage systems from the same vendor, and more than 60 percent cannot manage their storage resources as a single pool.’"