Published: 17 October 2022
Summary
Primary storage arrays and software-defined storage are crucial to business-critical, hybrid cloud use cases. I&O leaders need to assess platform offerings, core technologies and vendor business model capabilities across various use cases, which are driving IT operating model strategies.
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Key Findings
Vendor investment in software-driven artificial intelligence for IT operations is transforming IT infrastructure into a predictive, intelligent data services management platform, with the potential to substantially reduce hardware administration and support costs.
Managed storage as a service is targeted at replacing traditional IT hardware administration and capital expenditure sourcing with consumption-based platforms that accelerate IT innovation across a broad spectrum of data services technology partnerships.
Software-defined storage initiatives extend on-premises storage workloads to operate seamlessly across the hybrid platform substrate with SaaS-based central control and data planes to augment platform management and data services offerings.
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Strategic Planning Assumptions
- DDN NexentaStor
- DDN VMstore T7000-Series
- Dell Technologies PowerFlex
- Dell Technologies PowerMax
- Hitachi Vantara VSP 5600
- Hitachi Vantara VSS Block
- HPE Nimble/Alletra 6000
- HPE Primera/Alletra 9000
- Huawei OceanStor Dorado V6
- Huawei OceanStor Pacific
- IBM FlashSystems
- IBM Spectrum Virtualize for Public Cloud
- InfiniBox/InfiniBox SSA II
- Inspur HF18000G5/HF5000G5
- NetApp AFF A-Series
- NetApp Cloud Volumes ONTAP
- Pure Storage Cloud Block Store
- Pure Storage Flash Array//X Series
- Zadara zStorage
- Performance
- Storage Efficiency
- RAS
- Scalability
- Ecosystem
- Multitenancy and Security
- Manageability
- Online Transaction Processing
- Server Virtualization and VDI
- Containers
- Application Consolidation
- Cloud IT Operations
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