Built For Content: A New Breed of Storage Solutions

This IDC Presentation was given at Storage Networking World in Orlando, Florida on October 31, 2006. IDC provided a context for understanding the impact of the digital content explosion and the new content-centric companies on the storage industry. It highlighted applications and industries that are driving the content explosion and discussed how these leading companies' extreme storage requirements will influence future storage component and system designs.

The long-term storage and management of digital content is a growing challenge for companies as the explosion in the creation of digital content continues unabated. It also represents a major inflection point for many major players in the storage industry as growing numbers of companies are building their entire businesses around the creation, organization, and delivery of content to consumers and businesses.