The Role of Modern Storage in a Multi-cloud Future
The “data decade” is upon us and organizations are aggressively adopting a range of private and public cloud infrastructure solutions to make the most of their digital assets. However, there are clear indications that public cloud infrastructure adoption can have drawbacks if it creates complexity or occurs without careful consideration of the data that is migrated.
A recent ESG survey explored these topics as well as their connection to modern on-premises storage infrastructures, defined, for the purposes of this report, as on-premises storage solutions comparable to or better than public cloud alternatives in areas like cost-effectiveness, performance, and scalability. It revealed several compelling outcomes, which will be explored and explained in this paper, including:
89% of organizations with modern storage report hybrid cloud initiatives to date have been very effective at driving value for the organization.
Organizations with modern storage environments completed 57% more of their cloud projects ahead of schedule (relative to those with legacy storage environments).
Organizations with modern storage environments completed 65% more of their cloud projects under budget (relative to those with legacy storage environments).
53% of modern storage environment operators are very confident when achieving hybrid cloud goals versus 23% of those using legacy storage.
