'100 p.c. growth in data storage'

By Our Special Correspondent

BANGALORE, AUG. 23. There is 100 per cent annual growth in data storage and 80 per cent of the spending on each IT server/storage will be on storage by 2003, Mr. Kumar Malavalli, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Brocade Communication Systems Inc, U.S., said here on Wednesday. The Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure opportunity is likely to be $ 20 billion in three years, he said.

Mr. Malavalli was delivering the keynote address at a seminar on ``Trends in SAN'' organised by Satyam Computer Services Ltd.

He stressed the fact that just running the network fast and increasing connectivity were not sufficient. Increase in data traffic and the number of users in today's data centres mandated additional support by SAN. For instance, every piece of text, song, movie, image and transaction was being stored, replicates, moved around and backed up, he said.

Mr. Malavalli said every day, three million new web pages were generated and the internet traffic was around 3,50,000 terabytes a month. Left unchecked, storage costs could quadruple over the next four years. He said 80 per cent of the world's external storage would be SAN-attached soon. SAN would get bigger and global; bandwidth on demand and storage on demand would follow.

``Trends in SAN'' would be a series of technology-oriented seminars that Satyam will be organising in coming months.

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