Business expansion and regulatory compliance are the two most cited key dynamics behind the growth in networked storage.

For large companies including Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, HDS, NetApp, CA, Sun, HP, Quantum, Brocade, Cisco, Symantec, Data Domain, COPAN, FalconStor, QLogic, Fujitsu and a host of small, niche companies such as Diligent, Riverbed, Packeteer, CommVault, 3PAR, Compellent, Kazeon, MonoSphere, Index Engines and others, the spending binge is good news for an industry that has been struggling over the last two quarters.

The findings are derived from 154 hour-long interviews with TheInfoPro’s peer network of pre-screened Fortune 1000 Storage professionals who provide expert commentary for TIP’s Storage studies.

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