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ESG Research Report: Next-generation Storage Architectures
ESG Research Report
Mar 09, 2015
The objective for this research project was to get direct insights into what senior IT executives—with specific responsibility for their organizations’ data storage infrastructures—in North America think about a number of “next-generation” storage technologies. ESG leveraged a purely qualitative approach, which entailed hour-long interviews conducted solely by the authors of this paper. While qualitative work is more time-consuming and—at times—delicate in order to ensure that questions are posed fairly and without bias (and that the inevitable discussions are equally balanced), the genuine and considered insights that can be gleaned from it are extremely valuable.
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION, METHODOLOGY, and OBJECTIVES
Objective and Approach
Demographics and Interview Notes
ESG NEXT-GENERATION STORAGE TECHNOLOGY USAGE MODEL
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF KEY FINDINGS
Scalability and data growth persist as key storage challenges.
Storage professionals view integrated computing platforms (ICP) apprehensively, and many see these solutions as more tactical in nature.
Solid-state storage (SSS) has taken—and will continue to take—IT by storm; the only factor holding it back is price.
Software-defined storage (SDS) is still poorly understood, but that doesn’t equate to a lack of interest.
Public cloud storage presents a paradox.
Despite a limited understanding, object storage seems to be increasing in momentum.
Buying processes and preferences: collaboration and reputation.
In order to assess IT spending priorities over the next 12-18 months, ESG recently surveyed 601 IT professionals representing midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise-class (1,000 employees or more) organizations in North America and Western…
