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Storage
has never been more critical
Top six considerations in choosing a storage architecture to address the next wave of business innovation. By Dell.
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www.dcsuk.info I May 2014
Businesses today are looking to technologies such as cloud computing, mobility, social networking and big data analytics to drive a new wave of innovation. IDC has characterized these four developments as the pillars of a dominant new computing platform that will account for 80% of all growth in IT spending between now and the end of the decade.
This new wave of innovation, however, will challenge the existing infrastructures in most enterprises, particularly the legacy storage architectures built over the past 25 years to support traditional hard disk drive (HDD) storage systems. IT decision-makers are recognizing that the economics of enterprise storage must change if they are to deploy storage infrastructures that deliver the speed and agility required by today’s IT solutions at a price point that is affordable. Where are enterprises feeling the pain with today’s legacy storage systems?
1. Fixed and predictable storage array upgrade and migration cycles. With data capacity and performance requirements growing so rapidly, it makes poor economic sense to just keep adding and upgrading existing arrays.
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