SearchStorage.com asked enterprise data storage managers what their priorities are for this year and here are the top three responses: data backup (48%), adding capacity (37%) and disaster recovery (DR) (36%).  A free subscription is required to view the whole story.

Playing catch-up with capacity tends to create a ripple effect through storage environments, affecting nearly everything from data protection to new technology implementations. But that’s not to suggest that storage managers will just be trying to catch their breath in 2010 — most still have fairly ambitious to-do lists involving some of the newest storage technologies available.

The survey also found that storage managers will be looking at new technology to solve some of their storage issues. In particular, they are planning to focus on cloud computing and data deduplication to manage the storage capacity they currently have.