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External storage sector technologies fail to penetrate

Technologies such as deduplication, compression and thin provisioning have not yet achieved market penetration, network engineering course graduates may be interested to discover.

Figures published by IDC show that these advances are receiving a higher level of attention with its impact on power and cooling costs receiving attention.

The Economic Meltdown and Its Chilling Effect on the Cost to Power, Cost, and Manage Enterprise Storage reports that the majority of external storage costs are spent on management, equating to 60 per cent of total spend.

Among the expenditures this includes are software, power, cooling, administration personnel and services.

David Reinsel, group vice president for IDC storage and semiconductors, states that attempts to control IT overheads should focus on reducing these management costs, potentially creating opportunities for network engineering course graduates.

He states: "In the grand scheme of things, the cost to power and cool external storage pales in comparison with the cost to acquire and manage storage, including the costs for storage software and storage administrators."

Recent research by IDC showed that the storage software sector has experienced its 21st consecutive quarter of growth.