Data Storage: Preferred Vendors, Demands, Challenges

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Data Storage: Prefered Vendors, Demands, Challenges

Key findings

• Storage is still perceived as “commodity buy,” and a non-strategic function.
• Companies prefer to store their data in-house.
• Tape and HDDs continue to be important but solid state and cache memory are growing in companies where speed of data access is directly related to revenue opportunities.
• Cloud providers must convince data center decision makers that they can provide industrial strength data security and governance if they are to displace in-house storage.
• Technical experts make storage technology selections and recommendations, but C-level executives authorize them.
• There’s a desire to optimize and better manage storage consumption and performance, with the explosion of data being the driving factor.
• Storage virtualization will become a more active data center strategy as managers look for ways to better secure, centralize and manage their data.
• The speed and acceleration of business is likely to increase the adoption of solid state memory over time.