Storage at the Edge: Have Data Will Travel

Once upon a time storage was just a repository for data, but alas the Internet floodgates have opened, saturating businesses with trillions of emails and untold numbers of ecommerce transactions to administer. While each piece of customer information could prove invaluable to Internet savvy enterprise, simply storing, let alone effectively managing this horde of data, could bury the existing enterprise data storage infrastructure. For many, the notion of "Storage at the Edge", the strategic placement and management of enterprise data across the network, offers a chance to regain control of the myriad stores in the enterprise. But are enterprises successfully rising to the challenge? In our latest Zona Market Report, Storage At The Edge: Have Data, Will Travel Zona Research probes into the development and current state of "Storage at the Edge" technologies. The report is packed with primary research from interviews with 203 decision enterprise makers who are currently deploying storage at the edge solutions or plan to do so by 2003. In addition, the report addresses storage deployment budgets, deployment plans, barriers to deployment, the benefits of distributed storage as well as preferred purchasing channels for storage solutions.