文档介绍：IDC EXECUTIVE BRIEF
Thin Provisioning: Using
Intelligent Storage Virtualization
Technology for More Efficient Use
of Storage Assets
October 2010
Adapted from Worldwide Enterprise Storage Systems 2010–2014 Forecast: Recovery, Efficiency,
and Digitization Shaping Customer Requirements for Storage Systems by Natalya Yezhkova,
Richard L. Villars, Liz Conner, and Benjamin Woo, IDC #223234
Sponsored by Symantec
Introduction
IT departments today face a huge challenge with data storage. The
amount of digital content being created is growing exponentially, but
the corporate budgets to store and manage that information are not.
The slowdown in the economy has not impacted, nor will it impact,
this creation of content or the requirement to retain it. For example,
IDC predicts annual enterprise storage system shipments will
increase to exabytes by 2014 — a 49% compound annual
growth rate (CAGR), with external and internal capacity shipments
growing at 52% and % CAGRs, respectively.
Given the nature of today's distributed online economy, IDC
estimates that 70% of the data is generated by consumers and
corporate workers. Globalization, Web access, new techniques for
data gathering and analysis, munications, conversion from
paper to digital processes, and increased regulatory and legal
requirements all h