Data and Storage Looking Recession Proof

Budgets may tighten, IT budgets may face a meat cleaver during the worst of times, but data just keeps growing and there doesn't seem to be anything CIOs or CFOs can do about it except buy more devices that can store more stuff.

HDD vendors seem to understand this. iSupply says its research shows storage vendors seem to have decided not to sacrifice profitability for a few points of market share, so pricing stability could be a key factor moving forward.

Update The VAR Guy disagrees:

Well, the Bear Stearns IT shop may go away, but you know what doesn't go away? All of that great, valuable, Sarbanes-Oxley-protected data. Not only doesn't that data go away, all of the Bear Stearns customers who go on to other financial concerns, including JP Morgan Chase, will keep producing data. . .