Modernize Enterprise Storage
Current and emerging storage technologies are disrupting the status quo – prepare your infrastructure for the exponential rise in data and its storage requirements.
- Current storage solutions are nearing end of life, performance or capacity limits.
- Data continues to grow at an exponential rate, and management complexity is growing even faster. Some kinds of data, like unstructured data, are leading factors in the exponential growth of data.
- Emerging storage technologies and storage software/automation are disrupting the market and redefining the role of disk arrays, including how storage aligns with people and process.
- Storage infrastructure budgets are not satisfying the exponential growth of data.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Start with the data, not storage. Answer what is being stored and why before investigating the where and how of storage solutions.
- Governance and archiving are not IT projects. These can have tremendous benefits for managing data growth but must involve the larger business.
- More capacity is not a long-term solution. Data is growing faster than decreasing storage costs. Data and capacity mitigation strategies will help in more effective and efficient infrastructure utilization and cost reduction.
Impact and Result
- It’s about the data. Start with what is being supported and why. Decide on what and how data is stored before you decide on where. Let the needs of your workloads and governance requirements of your business drive your storage infrastructure decisions and the technologies you adopt.
- Identify current and future capacity needs for current and future data drivers. Evaluating the ability of current infrastructure to meet these needs will help you discover necessary additions to meet these requirements.
- Identify governance requirements and constraints that exist across the organization and are specific to workloads. Technology has to conform to these requirements and constraints, not the other way around.
- Align people and process with technology changes. To effectively utilize the changes in storage, appropriate changes must be made to existing people and process.
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Get the help you need in this 3-phase advisory process. You'll receive 6 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
Guided Implementation 1: Build the case for storage modernization
- Call 1: Develop the case for modernizing storage
- Call 2: Assess current infrastructure capabilities for meeting data needs
Guided Implementation 2: Develop storage technology needs and goals
- Call 1: Review data governance and emerging storage technologies
- Call 2: Identify current and future storage needs
Guided Implementation 3: Communicate roadmap and RFP
- Call 1: Discuss process and people initiatives, and develop and communicate roadmap
- Call 2: Develop an RFP and conduct TCO
Contributors
- Alastair Cooke, Chief Video Officer, vBrownBag
- Andrew Fling, VP Marketing, ioFABRIC
- Antonio Romeo, EMEA Presales Director, Dell EMC
- Darryl Levesque, Director of Technology Solutions, Kanatek
- Enrico Signoretti, Independent Analyst and Blogger, Juku Consulting
- Jim O’Reilly, President and Owner, Volanto
- Steve Lamb, CEO, ioFABRIC
- Trevor Pott, Systems Administrator, eGeek Consulting
- 10 anonymous contributors
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