In response to the question, "Heading into early 2003, which do you consider more likely?", about two-thirds of the respondents (67 percent) said they expect "incremental IT budget tightening by management." The largest number of those surveyed (43 percent) said they didn't expect to see an acceleration in IT spending until 2004 or later.
Still, storage networking remains a priority category for IT managers, according to the Goldman survey results. "Although storage networking may lack the hyper-growth of prior expectations, the growth profile remains strong," the firm's analysts write.
More than a third (35 percent) of those surveyed currently have no networked storage at all. On average, the survey respondents expect to increase SAN adoption to comprise 42 percent of all storage by the end of 2004, up from 18 percent today.
Specifically, storage networking components -- host bus adapters and switches -- still rank among the highest priorities for IT managers in 2003. NAS also held steady as a "medium priority," while storage software fell from the highest tier of priorities to a mid-level one. "Fading urgency around disaster-recovery initiatives post-9/11 may be affecting mindshare for storage software," according to the report.
Besides storage networking, other top IT spending priorities include Gigabit Ethernet, security, wireless LANs, and Web-based application infrastructure.
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