Dear Joel,
I'm pleased that my findings are satisfactory.
I am reposting them below for your convenience.
Best regards,
Bobbie7
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October 2000: between $25 to $75 per gigabyte per month
?For between $25 to $75 per gigabyte per month in most cases, IBM will
supply and manage the storage systems, allowing the customer's own IT
staff to focus on tasks other than storage, such as application
development or solving users' IT problems. The price varies with the
types of services that customers buy, which might include raw storage
capacity for primary data as well as backup and recovery services and
even data mirroring, an expensive procedure in which two copies of
data are always created in case one system fails.?
?Analysts say IBM's new storage service adds more credibility to a
market that was pioneered about two years ago by a company called
StorageNetworks Inc. in Waltham, Mass. Most of the early customers of
managed storage services have been deep-pocketed dot-com startups.
These companies like the model because they often have little or no IT
infrastructure of their own. But they are eager to use their venture
capital to rent ready-made, pay-as-you-go storage capacity from a
storage service provider (SSP).?
FCW
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2000/1030/tec-storage-10-30-00.asp
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APRIL 03, 2000 $50 per gigabyte
According to StorageNetworks, the average monthly cost for managed
storage per terabyte is $50,000.
Computerworld: April, 2000
http://www.computerworld.com/news/2000/story/0,11280,44323,00.html
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July, 2001 from $30 to $120 per gigabyte
??startups would simply pay a set amount per gigabyte of storage,
typically anywhere from $30 to $120, depending on the range of
services chosen.
Outsourcing Storage: Part-time Help - Industry Trend or Event
Telecommunications, July, 2001
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0TLC/is_7_35/ai_76939601
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July 31, 2001: $12-30 per gigabyte per month
Source: Dealing with Data - The Outsourcing Method
July 31, 2001 http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/outsourcing/features/print.php/857381
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2001-Typically $20 to $70 per gigabyte per month,
?What's a budget-conscious company to do? My vote: Outsource the whole
mess to a storage service provider (SSP) such as IBM Global Services,
EDS, Compaq, or newcomer StorageNetworks. SSPs provide storage
capacity and manage it for you, either in your own data center, in the
co-location facility where your site is hosted, or at the SSP's own
data center. In return you pay only for what you use -- typically $20
to $70 per gigabyte per month, depending on how much data you have,
what kind of backups you need, and how much bandwidth you connect to
your data.
"SSP prices can only come down," predicts IDC program manager Doug
Chandler. That's good news for e-business: There may be a place to put
all that data after all.
How to Beat the High Cost of Storage originally published in eCompany
Now, 2001-07-01
http://dylan.tweney.com/writing.php?display=154
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March 07, 2002: $60 to $70 per gigabyte per month
?Black Rocket Storage is available for $60 to $70 per gigabyte per
month, with volume discounts for over a terabyte. The price includes
Internet connectivity.2
Bytes and Switch
http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=12595
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June 9, 2004: $1.95 per gigabyte per month
?Sun last week announced it would provide data storage for $1.95 per
gigabyte per month as well as data center services at a single price
that's subject to a discount. After mulling the plans for a few days,
some analysts say that even if the struggling computer maker is mainly
trying to drum up excitement, it still may be helping customers and
itself.?
ZDNet News
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-5229092.html
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May 2005: $1 per gigabyte per month
Sun is also going to make storage capacity available to service
providers and larger enterprises from July. It will cost $1 per
gigabyte per month and can be used for remote archiving and recovery.
Subscribing to Sun shine
Techworld.com 5/4/05
http://utilitycomputing.itworld.com/4593/050504sunshine/page_1.html
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80 cents per gigabyte per month
?Market research giant Gartner Inc., too, says caveat emptor. ?At
slightly more than the 80 cents per gigabyte per month Sun charges to
have its 6920 system deployed at a customer site, Storage Utility
sounds compelling,? write Gartner analysts Adam W. Couture and Carl
Claunch in a research bulletin. ?It costs four to five times less than
what managed hosting centers typically charge for shared storage
pricing. But Sun hasn't yet announced what it will charge for tiered
service levels, backups or any other management fees.?
http://esj.com/enterprise/article.aspx?EditorialsID=1278
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Info Tech Research Group: Data Storage Market to Grow by 35 Percent in 2005
April 26, 2005 Issue
?The data storage market will grow by 35 percent in 2005, according to
a new study from Info-Tech Research Group (www.infotech.com/san), a
leading IT analyst firm. Data storage is the number one priority for
mid-sized enterprises that plan to "invest heavily" in 2005.?
DMReview.com
http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=1025952
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Holographic storage: 6 cents to 20 cents per gigabyte
?She expects holographic storage to run about 6 cents to 20 cents per
gigabyte, lower than the projected cost of tape, which she estimated
at 25 cents to $1 per gigabyte. Holographic storage also would be
cheaper than DVDs ($1 to $2 per gigabyte) and disks (less than $3 per
gigabyte).?
03/10/05
Start-up debuts holographic storage device
http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/storage/35256-1.html
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Storage area networks (SANs) are the hottest segment of the red-hot
storage market. Info-Tech predicts a 40 percent growth in the SAN
market in 2005.
http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=1025952
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Nuying Storage in Bulk
Published on Aug. 22, 2005
http://www.fcw.com/article90264-08-22-05-Print
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Commercial Market Research Report
Worldwide Storage Services Market 2005-2009 Forecast
Pub Time: 2005/04
http://www.gii.co.jp/english/id29319_storage_service_toc.html
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Projecting the Cost of Magnetic Disk Storage over the Next 10 Years
Here is a good whitepaper detailing costs of enterprise storage since
1992 which includes projections to 2010.
Download here:
http://www.berghell.com/whitepapers/Projecting%20the%20Cost%20of%20Magnetic%20Storage%20Over%20the%20Next%2010%20years.pdf |
