Meet Rising Data Challenges With Storage Modernization
Hitachi Vantara, Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Though storage systems and cloud storage services are well known, organizations should consider enhancing a handful of key areas in their storage infrastructure to prepare for the future. While some consider storage systems, management software and services to be commodities, differentiation between offerings can determine the scalability, flexibility, efficiency and resiliency of the data storage infrastructure.
Organizations should seek out offerings that are scalable across multiple dimensions. Scalability of storage capacity is essential given that annual data growth of about 30% is common. Performance scalability is key; customers should look for offerings that allow for nondisruptive controller upgrades to boost the performance of storage clusters when necessary. In our research, we found that a third of respondents have been negatively impacted by slow storage performance, which leads to lower employee productivity, lost revenue, penalty fees and decreased customer satisfaction, among other negative impacts.