Abstract

This IDC study presents the first comprehensive five-year forecast for IDC's worldwide enterprise Global StorageSphere segmented by 19 vertical industries. Each vertical industry is grouped into one of the five sectors: distribution and services, financial, infrastructure, manufacturing and resources, and public sector. The data in this study is a subset of Worldwide Global StorageSphere Forecast, 2022-2026: An Installed Base of 7.9ZB of Storage Capacity in 2021 Came at a Cost of $370 Billion –– Is It Enough? (IDC #US49051122, May 2022).

"The mix of data types stored by industry varies considerably, each with varying data retention and data access requirements, leading to very different adoptions of various storage media technologies," according to John Rydning, research vice president, IDC's Global DataSphere. "New, lower-cost storage technologies are likely to be adopted faster in some industry verticals than others. Understanding vertical industry data storage dynamics will be critically important for new storage technology solution suppliers."

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