back to article There's little spending on Big Data, object storage and OpenStack

A DataCore survey has shown little spending on sexy storage products in the Big Data, public cloud, object storage, and OpenStack areas, arguing software-defined storage (SDS) gives a faster payback. DataCore asked 477 IT professionals currently using or evaluating software-defined storage technology about their 2015 spending …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Ain't no double negatives here

    it seems like phrasing the question "what have you not budgeted for" has confused even our intrepid reg hack.

    In fact, the report seems to be saying that flash is the least un-budgeted, as in the most funded, amongst the categories.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Ain't no double negatives here

      If they actually phrased the question that way, I'll bet it confused a few respondents too.

      It also makes me dubious about the methodology in general. For example, either the people looking at cloud storage for backup, archive, or DR are mutually exclusive; or it's flat-out wrong to add up the numbers for each and call that the %age of respondents looking at these uses (bottom of page 7).

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Upside Down Cake

    It seems that the authors might be trying to spin the survey to suit themselves. They dismissively talk about 'much hyped' technologies but the survey show 30% are already budgeting for OpenStack, 50% for 'big data storage' and 50% for 'object storage'. These either didn't exist or were niche just a couple of years ago.That is a big jump. A rationale person, without their own agenda, might think this confirms there is something to OpenStack, big data storage and object storage - even if some marketing folk have been over excited by it.

  3. Dan 10

    Surprise

    Storage spending is where it's at! Says, er, storage company. With a dodgy methodology.

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