55% of Mid-Market Enterprises Experience Business Disruption Due to Storage Upgrades

Gridstore, Inc., in software defined storage solutions, announced findings from a study on the top IT pain points impacting today’s mid-market enterprises.

The study revealed that managing the storage lifecycle due to staggering data growth is a significant challenge for IT administrators. Organizations are faced with the need to both overcome storage limitations and the resulting complexity and expense of storage upgrades and over-provisioning storage to accommodate for this growth.

According to IDC, over 1.8ZB of data was created last year in the form of files, email and video and will account for 90% of all data created in the next decade. This data proliferation is impacting businesses of all sizes, yet the number of IT professionals available to manage all that data will only grow by 1.5 times today’s levels.
   
Key findings of the study found that
during a major storage upgrade:

• 55% of mid-market enterprises experienced business and end user disruption
• 32% experienced failed the upgrade process where migrations didn’t complete, and
• 9% lost data or access to data during the migration

As many as 71% of the survey respondents reported that they were adding storage and capacity every 6 to 12 months. The majority (63%) of those surveyed had a storage environment of between 50 and 250TB in capacity.

During a major storage upgrade, have you experienced:

When asked what their top challenges are today,
the survey respondents commented that:

• keeping it cost effective, responsive and adequate for growing businesses needs
• backing up vast amounts of data
• catching up with the growth of data and the expense to do that; and,
• hitting capacity limits too quickly were their top concerns.

To solve the mid-market’s storage challenges, Gridstore offers the Grid, a solution that scales easily to match the dynamics of business. Featuring a pay-as-you-go model, it allows companies to add storage just like building blocks, whenever additional capacity, bandwidth and performance is needed. This eliminates the challenge of storage forecasting, the high cost of over provisioning and the risk of migration.

"Mid-sized enterprises are feeling the pain of trying to keep up with staggering amounts of data and are trying to solve the problem with antiquated storage solutions that don’t fit their business model," said Kelly Murphy, CEO, Gridstore. "Organizations are forced to procure costly storage every 6 to 12 months and with this price tag comes complexity and risk that is disruptive to their business. Gridstore’s scale-out storage applicance gives organizations a simple building block approach to solving their storage dilemma allowing them to achieve the capacity and performance they need- at the time they need it – without costly over provisioning or risky forklift upgrades."

To read the entire survey