Voice of IT Survey: The State of Enterprise Data Warehousing – Spiceworks

Voice of IT Survey: The State of Enterprise Data Warehousing – Spiceworks

By Tanvi Bagadiya
Publication Date: 2026-03-04 20:35:00

Welcome back to the Spiceworks Voice of IT series. Since its inception in 2010, our Voice of IT surveys have collected feedback from IT professionals around the world to help inform their peers across the industry. More recently, we asked IT professionals for their opinion on laptops, wireless access pointsand password management tools. For this edition, we are doing a two-part edition. This week we dive into data storage and next week we’ll back up data.

Enterprise data storage is a crowded and competitive market. To help navigate all of this, we gathered responses from nearly 460 professionals, covering three main areas: how satisfied respondents were with their storage providers, what drove their vendor selection decisions, and where providers still have room for improvement, whether in their pricing, their services, or their product offerings.

As you dig deeper into the results below, a pattern emerges consistently throughout our survey. In a space where the cost of…