Published: 18 September 2023
Summary
Primary storage arrays and software-defined storage products are crucial to mission-critical and hybrid cloud use cases. I&O leaders need to assess platform offerings, core technologies and vendor business model capabilities across the use cases herein, which are driving IT operating model outcomes.
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Overview
Key Findings
Infrastructure and operations leaders have increased their adoption and use of consumption-based, managed storage, as-a-service offerings, driven by modernization initiatives and cloud-like benefits.
Vendor investment in artificial intelligent operations and software-defined infrastructure improves operational efficiencies, reduces complexity, and lowers administration and support costs.
Advances in IT operating model, SLA-based outcomes have increased productivity, improved asset utilization and reduced the impact of cyberthreats to data.
Recommendations
I&O leaders who are modernizing their mission and business-critical application infrastructure and executing hybrid platform initiatives should:
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Strategic Planning Assumptions
- Dell Technologies PowerFlex
- Dell Technologies PowerMax
- Hitachi Vantara VSP 5600
- Hitachi Vantara VSS Block
- HPE Alletra 9000, 6000 and 5000
- Huawei OceanStor Dorado V6
- Huawei OceanStor Pacific
- IBM Storage FlashSystem
- IBM Storage Virtualize for Public Cloud
- IEIT Systems AS13000 ICFS
- IEIT Systems HF Series
- Infinidat InfiniBox/SSA II
- Infinidat InfuzeOS
- NetApp AFF A-Series
- NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
- Pure Storage Cloud Block Store
- Pure Storage FlashArray//X Series
- Tintri TCE1000
- Tintri VMstore T7000
- Performance
- Storage Efficiency
- RAS
- Scalability
- Ecosystem
- Multitenancy and Security
- Operations Management
- Online Transaction Processing
- Virtualization
- Containers
- Application Consolidation
- Hybrid Cloud IT Operations
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
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Critical Capabilities Methodology