Overview


The digital business demands being placed on enterprise-scale IT organizations are now so extreme that IT infrastructure, especially storage, must evolve to help meet them. According to ESG research, 98% of IT organizations have digital transformation activities on their roadmap. Digital transformation goals fuel multiple business opportunities, including becoming more operationally efficient (reported by 56%), developing innovative new products and services (38%), and even developing entirely new business models (25%). 1 In modern environments, IT infrastructure ties directly to revenue creation, cost avoidance, and risk reduction.

As IT success and business success grow more intertwined, maintaining resilient, efficient operations becomes essential. Minutes or even seconds of downtime quickly become costly. Infrastructure technologies such as the right data storage can deliver a business advantage. Not surprisingly, 71% of surveyed organizations told ESG that they consider the role that data storage technology plays in their organization to be strategic and having an effective storage strategy is critical to achieving a competitive advantage.

Modern storage systems must adapt to the increased demands of enterprise organizations and deliver greater flexibility, such as in how they scale, how they support data movement, what applications they support, and how they support infrastructure modernization.

Certain mission-critical applications, however, have unique needs that extend beyond even what modern storage systems can provide. Some examples of these workloads include flight reservation systems, core banking operations or billing applications, and critical healthcare applications—all are which are vital to the organization and cannot go offline ever. They must always perform at a high level and demand maximum resiliency and fault tolerance even during a software upgrade. They also need to scale greatly without compromising any services, and they must be highly secure. Failure to meet those requirements can result in severe negative financial, legal, and regulatory impacts to the whole organization.

Modern Digital Enterprises are Redefining Storage for Mission-critical Workloads


ESG has conducted extensive research into the evolving data storage needs of IT organizations. The results show why mission-critical storage infrastructure needs to be held to a higher standard.

A digital enterprise produces a considerable amount of IT complexity: 75% of respondents identified that their IT environments are more complex than they were just two years ago.

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Redefining Modern Enterprise Storage for Mission-critical Workloads

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