Johannesburg, 05 Aug 2015
Enterprise storage environments are increasingly strained in handling organisations' data requirements. Based on the broadening adoption of cloud, mobile, social, big data, and Internet of things technologies, the IT industry is shifting to a new platform for industry and enterprise innovation and growth. This 3rd Platform of computing will enable the transformation of every industry in the coming years and beyond.
As they look to leverage 3rd Platform technologies to achieve new competitive advantages and growth opportunities, organisations are more dependent than ever on their IT infrastructure in general and on their storage systems in particular to execute this transformation. Nevertheless, many of them are coping with a situation in which data growth outpaces storage capacity growth and in which budgets are not increasing proportionally to the increasing needs for storage space and performance.
Hindered by budget constraints and the limitations of current storage architectures, organisations are increasingly forced to compromise on key requirements for storage performance, capacity, scalability, reliability, manageability, and cost. To avoid these increasingly unacceptable compromises, a need exists for new architectures that can turn enterprise storage into a true enabler rather than a problem to be solved.
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