Public cloud storage deployment is by far the biggest storage priority for organizations in the UK and Ireland in 2023, with 32% intending to deploy it in the next 12 months.
Meanwhile, 37% named disaster recovery as their top data security-related project for 2023.
That’s according to respondents to the TechTarget/Computer Weekly IT Priorities for 2023 survey, conducted in late 2022, which asked about spending plans and projects for the year.
The research questioned 156 technology decision makers in the UK and Ireland. Of these, 30% were IT managers and 33% were senior IT leaders such as C-level and directors. Industries represented include education, financial services, healthcare, government and internet providers. The largest proportion (32%) worked in companies of between 1,000 and 10,000 people.
Despite its prominence, cloud storage has declined as a priority since last year, when it topped the list for 42% of storage projects.
It looks like traditional storage is not dead, with storage area network deployment indicated as a priority project by 16% of respondents to questions related to storage. This was followed by software-defined storage (11%), network-attached storage (11%), flash storage (11%) and hyper-converged infrastructure (10%).
Among the most talked about topics is the interest in data storage, with 6% saying they plan to deploy object storage, while 5% plan to roll out computational storage.
When asked specifically about data security, 37% listed disaster recovery (DR) as a top project priority, followed by data governance, risk and compliance (23%), ransomware protection (19%) , data archiving (19%) and virtual machine (VM) backup (18%).
Meanwhile, keeping with the interest and push to the cloud is that 16% plan to deploy backup as a service. Also, 6% plan to deploy container backup and, as evidence it ain’t dead, 2% plan to deploy to tape in 2023.
The big picture for all this is that 44% of survey respondents said their organizations will increase IT budgets this year – up from 40% in 2022 – while a similar percentage (44%) described themselves as “cloud-first”. described, with DevOps as the dominant mode of application development.
All of this is due to an increase in the volume of data, which is prompting investments in data management, backup and security. The result is that artificial intelligence (AI) and such forms of automation are increasingly seen as a means to keep up with increasingly complex environments.
When asked about infrastructure investment plans, hybrid cloud came out on top, indicated by 34% of respondents. Containers and container management – which would include container storage and backup provisioning – was third on the list, with 18% saying it would be a 2023 priority.
While security and risk is the technology area receiving the most attention – 51% gave it as their main area of focus – cloud, infrastructure and operations (which includes storage and backup) came in second at 45%.
With the rise of ransomware threats, cyber security has naturally become more important, and 57% of respondents said so. Cloud — including cloud storage — was second most important in terms of increased focus.
When asked which technology areas have become significantly more important over the past two years, cyber security was at the top (63%, a 14% increase over 2022), with cloud second (44%, +13% ), while data management and governance saw a huge jump (+41%, +57%).
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