Faced with endless data growth, many IT teams are tasked with managing and storing more information than ever before - all without draining their already-tight budgets. The pressure of increasing storage demands can feel just as overwhelming as the pressure to simultaneously reduce and survive on today's tiny IT budgets. Figuring out how to efficiently manage and store Big Data can seem like an impossible task.

In efforts to understand the rate at which real-world companies' data is growing and to learn how they handle it, Aberdeen Group surveyed 30 large enterprises (106 respondents total) across the globe in January 2012. From the results, one major storage tool was identified.

Check out this brief white paper to learn what survey respondents identified as the most important storage technology for managing big data and stop dreading storage capacity planning immediately.