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

Executive Snapshot

• Figure: Executive Snapshot: A Look at Long-Term Data Retention by Organizations in IDC's Global StorageSphere

New Market Developments and Dynamics

• Introduction

• What Is Long-Term Data Retention?

• Why Do Organizations Retain Data Long Term?

• Figure: Reasons for Organizations' Data Retention Period

• How Much Data Is Retained Long Term by Organizations?

• Surveying How Long Organizations Indicate They Store Data

• Figure: Percentage of Enterprise Data Retention by Organizations Across All Storage Solutions by Time Period

• 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

• Table: Worldwide Long-Term Data Retention Volume by Cloud and Noncloud and by Storage Media Type, 2022 (EB)

• Figure: Worldwide Long-Term Data Retention Volume Share in Enterprise Datacenters on HDD and Tape Storage, 2022

• Figure: Worldwide Long-Term Data Retention Volume in Enterprise Datacenters Compared with the Total Volume of Data Stored in Enterprise Datacenters, 2022

• Two or More Copies of Data

• Mix of Structured and Unstructured Data Retained Long Term

• Figure: Percentage of Organizations Retaining Data for Five or More Years by Data Type

• Long-Term Data Storage and Data Retention Dynamics to Watch

• DNA Data Storage

• Nanostructured Optical Storage

• Optical Archival Media

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• Related Research

• Synopsis