Five Factors Driving Enterprise STaaS Adoption in 2020

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Five Factors Driving Enterprise Storage-as-a-Service Adoption in 2020

STaaS is a burgeoning market segment that aligns well with modern trends driving enterprise infrastructure purchases.
1. Enterprise storage functions continue to consolidate, whether these solutions are deployed on-premises or in the cloud; previously discrete storage tasks (e.g., provisioning, tiering, migration) are merging into a single discipline, and buyers expect growing levels of automation of these tasks.
2. STaaS is an increasingly adopted delivery model among enterprises, and a wide range of “services” fall under this umbrella, from bare-bones platforms that provide access to capacity to fully managed services that offload almost all storage tasks to the vendor.
3. Zadara is an established player in the STaaS market, delivering fully managed storage services on-premises and in the cloud using a model designed to fulfill the needs of today’s cloud-native infrastructure buyer who has expectations for metered billing, flexible capacity, automatic upgrades, and so forth.
4. Buyers should consider the themes and analysis presented in this document when deciding future infrastructure purchases. IDC sees STaaS as a burgeoning market segment that aligns well with modern trends driving enterprise infrastructure purchases. The workloads, industry vertical, company size, and use cases of the buyer will create variability, but the flexibility of STaaS solutions and levels of services available from different vendors should be able to address most customer requirements.