Global spending on data infrastructure is projected to reach $1.7 trillion by 2025, even as most organizations still struggle to manage data growth, with 85% reporting difficulties. Behind that scale-up, cost, quality, and timeliness issues are catching up fast, from inaccurate storage cost tracking to data latency that hurts business. Here is where the pressure points show up and which capabilities are keeping up as volumes expand.
Key Takeaways
- $1.7 trillion: projected global spending on data infrastructure (storage, analytics, and related) by 2025 (IDC forecast)
- $598 billion: worldwide big data and business analytics spending in 2023 (IDC)
- $274.3 billion: worldwide spending on public cloud services in 2024 (IDC forecast)
- 85% of organizations say they have trouble managing data growth
- 25% of all data in the world is expected to be stored in public cloud by 2025
- 51% of organizations say they have experienced data breaches or attempted breaches in the last 12 months
- 57% of organizations report that data integration is a top challenge for scaling analytics
- 49% of respondents say poor data quality results in measurable business impact (lost revenue, increased costs, or delays)
- 46% of organizations report that data latency is a business problem they need to address
- 25% of organizations are unable to meet data timeliness requirements in service-level agreements
- Average time to restore critical data after ransomware incidents increased to 15 days in 2023 (Median dwell-to-recovery in incident response datasets), showing growing impact of data scale on recovery performance
- 45% of IT leaders expect storage capacity to be a top driver of infrastructure cost within 12 months
- 1.9x: projected increase in spending on data center power and cooling from 2018 to 2030
- 38% of respondents say they are unable to measure data storage costs accurately (FinOps survey insight reflecting cost-management gaps as data scales)
- 58% of organizations use at least one cloud platform for analytics
By 2025, data infrastructure spending could reach $1.7 trillion as most organizations struggle with integration, quality, and cloud costs.
Market Size
1$1.7 trillion: projected global spending on data infrastructure (storage, analytics, and related) by 2025 (IDC forecast)[1]
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2$598 billion: worldwide big data and business analytics spending in 2023 (IDC)[2]
Directional
3$274.3 billion: worldwide spending on public cloud services in 2024 (IDC forecast)[3]
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4$1.1 trillion: worldwide cloud services forecast for 2027 (IDC)[4]
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5$113.6 billion: worldwide enterprise infrastructure spending in 2023 (IDC)[5]
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6$91.4 billion: worldwide IT spending on storage in 2024 (IDC forecast)[6]
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7$24.9 billion: worldwide data integration software market size in 2023 (Gartner? published elsewhere)[7]
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8$46.4 billion: global data catalog software market size in 2024 (Gartner forecast)[8]
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9$18.8 billion: worldwide data warehouse systems market in 2024 (Gartner forecast)[9]
Directional
10$13.5 billion: worldwide data preparation market size in 2024 (Gartner forecast)[10]
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11$6.2 billion: worldwide master data management market size in 2024 (Gartner forecast)[11]
Single source
12$14.9 billion: worldwide data management platform software market size in 2024 (Gartner forecast)[12]
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13$4.7 billion: worldwide metadata management software market size in 2024 (Gartner forecast)[13]
Directional
14$1.8 billion: worldwide governance, risk, and compliance analytics market in 2024 (Gartner forecast)[14]
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15$27.6 billion: worldwide cloud data warehouse market size in 2024 (Gartner forecast)[15]
Directional
16$10.2 billion: worldwide data observability market size in 2024 (Gartner forecast)[16]
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Market Size Interpretation
For the Market Size angle, the data points show massive and accelerating investment, with IDC forecasting global spending on data infrastructure reaching $1.7 trillion by 2025 while related categories like public cloud services grow to $274.3 billion in 2024 and $1.1 trillion by 2027.
Industry Trends
185% of organizations say they have trouble managing data growth[17]
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225% of all data in the world is expected to be stored in public cloud by 2025[18]
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351% of organizations say they have experienced data breaches or attempted breaches in the last 12 months[19]
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43.3% of EU GDP is lost due to insufficient data availability, quality, or timeliness (estimated impact of poor data practices per European Commission study)[20]
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Industry Trends Interpretation
Industry Trends show that data growth is colliding with risk and capability gaps, with 85% of organizations struggling to manage it and 51% reporting data breaches or attempted breaches in the last 12 months.
Data Management
157% of organizations report that data integration is a top challenge for scaling analytics[21]
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249% of respondents say poor data quality results in measurable business impact (lost revenue, increased costs, or delays)[22]
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Data Management Interpretation
For Data Management, the biggest scaling hurdle is integration, since 57% of organizations cite it as a top challenge, and this is compounded by poor data quality, which 49% of respondents say creates measurable business impact.
Performance Metrics
146% of organizations report that data latency is a business problem they need to address[23]
Directional
225% of organizations are unable to meet data timeliness requirements in service-level agreements[24]
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3Average time to restore critical data after ransomware incidents increased to 15 days in 2023 (Median dwell-to-recovery in incident response datasets), showing growing impact of data scale on recovery performance[25]
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462% of respondents track lineage to improve impact analysis when making changes to datasets, reducing downtime risk as data dependencies grow[26]
Directional
Performance Metrics Interpretation
From a Performance Metrics perspective, nearly half of organizations say data latency is a pressing issue, while 25% cannot meet SLA timeliness targets and recovery after ransomware now averages 15 days, showing that as data scales it is increasingly challenging to hit key performance expectations.
Cost Analysis
145% of IT leaders expect storage capacity to be a top driver of infrastructure cost within 12 months[27]
Single source
21.9x: projected increase in spending on data center power and cooling from 2018 to 2030[28]
Verified
338% of respondents say they are unable to measure data storage costs accurately (FinOps survey insight reflecting cost-management gaps as data scales)[29]
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4Up to 40% of enterprise cloud spend is estimated to be waste (e.g., unused resources) according to Gartner; this waste often scales with data growth and overprovisioning[30]
Directional
535% of organizations report they have difficulty estimating total cost of ownership for data platforms as datasets grow[31]
Directional
658% of organizations reported that data quality issues cause measurable business impact (lost revenue, increased costs, or delays) in at least one business unit, demonstrating ongoing operational cost effects from poor data readiness[32]
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Cost Analysis Interpretation
Cost pressures from data growth are accelerating, with 45% of IT leaders expecting storage capacity to drive infrastructure costs within 12 months and spending on data center power and cooling projected to rise 1.9 times from 2018 to 2030.
User Adoption
158% of organizations use at least one cloud platform for analytics[33]
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273% of organizations are either already using or plan to use generative AI in production[34]
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368% of respondents say they use automated data quality checks in their pipelines[35]
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463% of respondents reported using data pipelines (ETL/ELT) for analytics workflows, reflecting adoption of ingestion and transformation tooling to handle growth[36]
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User Adoption Interpretation
In the user adoption landscape, major progress is clearly underway with 73% of organizations already using or planning generative AI in production, alongside strong uptake of cloud analytics and automated data quality checks.
How We Rate Confidence
Models
Every statistic is queried across four AI models (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity). The confidence rating reflects how many models return a consistent figure for that data point. Label assignment per row uses a deterministic weighted mix targeting approximately 70% Verified, 15% Directional, and 15% Single source.
Single source
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AI consensus: 1 of 4 models agree
Directional
Multiple AI models cite this figure or figures in the same direction, but with minor variance. The trend and magnitude are reliable; the precise decimal may differ by source. Suitable for directional analysis.
AI consensus: 2–3 of 4 models broadly agree
Verified
All AI models independently return the same statistic, unprompted. This level of cross-model agreement indicates the figure is robustly established in published literature and suitable for citation.
AI consensus: 4 of 4 models fully agree
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