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How Much Data Is Retained Long Term? — A Look at Long-Term Data Retention by Organizations in IDC's Global StorageSphere

Publisher IDC
Published Feb 14, 2023
Length 12 Pages
SKU # IDC17743246

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How Much Data Is Retained Long Term? — A Look at Long-Term Data Retention by Organizations in IDC's Global StorageSphere

This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the current state of long-term data retention by enterprise organizations in IDC's Global StorageSphere. It provides a definition for long-term data retention and explores the reasons why organizations retain data long term, how much data is being retained long term, the type and mix of media on which long-term retained data it is being stored, where it is being stored, and the dynamics that might impact long-term data retention policies and practices by organizations in the future."Every organization defines long-term data retention uniquely," according to John Rydning, research vice president, IDC's Global DataSphere. "Although a standard universal definition is lacking, the estimated volume of data retained long term in IDC's Global StorageSphere is significant and represents a sizable target market for novel storage technologies that are orders of magnitude lower in cost than current magnetic storage media technologies."

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Table of Contents

12 Pages
Executive Snapshot
New Market Developments and Dynamics
Introduction
What Is Long-Term Data Retention?
Why Do Organizations Retain Data Long Term?
How Much Data Is Retained Long Term by Organizations?
Surveying How Long Organizations Indicate They Store Data
Evaluating the Volume of Data Stored Long Term in Enterprise Datacenters by Media Type
Solid State Drive
Tape Media
Hard Disk Drive
Estimating the Installed Base of Archival Storage Capacity for HDD and SSD Enterprise Storage System
Long-Term Data Retention on Tape and HDD Storage
Two or More Copies of Data
Mix of Structured and Unstructured Data Retained Long Term
Long-Term Data Storage and Data Retention Dynamics to Watch
DNA Data Storage
Nanostructured Optical Storage
Optical Archival Media
IDC's Point of View
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Related Research
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