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Cost/GB Third Most Important Factor When Purchasing Storage System – Tintri

Behind performance and ease of use

Tintri Inc. released its 2015 State of Storage study that captures the pain points and priorities of over 1,000 data centre professionals.

While the study highlights performance, capital expenses and management as three of the top storage pains, it also found that organisations are still making buying decisions based on the needs of physical workloads, despite the fact that the percentage of virtualised workloads has grown to 75% in the last decade.  

In the study, two out of three respondents said they work for organisations where more than 50% of workloads are virtualised, with 38% already using more than one hypervisor. However, respondents also named cost-per-gigabyte as the third most important factor when purchasing a storage system behind performance and ease of use. As companies deploy more VMs, a far more accurate predictor of expense is cost-per-VM.

If IT decision makers continue to apply the same purchasing criteria for physical workloads to virtualised workloads when they select storage, they risk ending up with an infrastructure that’s ill-suited to support modern applications and their business needs,” said Yael Zheng, CMO, Tintri. “To transform their data centre and eliminate pain points, they need to turn to storage that’s designed for virtualised applications and cloud.”

Storage Pain

tintri,2015 State of Storage study

The study compared pain points of respondents using traditional storage technologies vs. next generation storage technologies and found that those using traditional systems are feeling more pain in every category:

  • Performance (latency): 53% of respondents using conventional storage reported performance pain vs. just 30% of those using next generation storage
  • Capital Expenses (reduce spend): 44% of respondents using conventional storage reported capex pain vs. 36% of those using next generation storage
  • Manageability (admin time and effort): 39% of respondents using conventional storage reported pain vs. 21% of those using next generation storage

The 2015 State of Storage study indicates that sticking with incumbent storage is actually riskier than adopting new technology. Companies are starting to catch on, which explains why two-thirds of respondents had introduced a new storage vendor in the last 24 months.

Full 2015 State of Storage report (registration needed)
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