Next Generation Storage: A Look 5 Years Out

Current storage solutions have served our IT community well since the late 1970s, but the needs of today are quickly revealing their shortcomings. The world is changing. Isn't it time to change your storage solution?

The IT ecosystem is made up of interrelated mechanisms that need to work in concert to deliver services to the business. But if most of the ecosystem evolves to help make the organization more adaptable and competitive, one unchanged layer can hold back all of the potential benefits. We are fast approaching that point with storage. Petabyte scale, reliability, performance, and efficiency are the order of the day, and this requires a change in our current storage paradigm.