We would like to keep you up to date with the latest news from Digitalisation World by sending you push notifications.
Subscribe to Digitalisation World
Why Subscribe?
Digital Newsletter Each week our editor Phil Alsop rounds up the most popular articles, videos and expert opinions. We compile this into a Digital Newsletter and send it straight to your inbox every week.
Digital Magazines We'll let you know each time a new edition of Digitalisation World is released so that you're always kept up-to-date with the latest and greatest news and press releases.
Video Magazines The Digitalisation World Video magazine contains the latest Zoom interviews with experts in the industry.
Hyperconverged and software-defined storage on the rise
ActualTech Media, in partnership with Atlantis Computing, has
released its Hyperconverged
Infrastructure (HCIS) and Software-Defined Storage (SDS) 2016 Survey to
provide insight on how IT organisations are building modern data
centres in 2016 and beyond. The survey,
conducted with more than 1,267 data centre leaders from 53 countries,
revealed that 71 per cent either already use or are considering adoption
of HCIS or SDS.
8 years ago
Posted in
“There is a lot of confusion and hype in the fast changing HCIS and SDS markets and it is critical to gather data about real-world usage,” explained Scott D. Lowe, partner and co-founder of ActualTech Media. “We believe this is the largest and most detailed account of adoption, buying criteria and use cases for HCIS and SDS. The new report provides IT organisations with critical insights on how HCIS and SDS technologies are being used, actual experiences from the field and the future plans of data centre leaders from around the world.”
Why are Organisations Adopting SDS and HCI?
While 75 per cent or organisations currently use disk-based storage, only 44 per cent have it as part of their future infrastructure plans. Further, 19 per cent of organisations expect to decommission disk-based SAN entirely in favour of either HCIS or SDS. When asked about their key decision criteria for adoption of SDS and HCIS, IT organisations cited performance (72 per cent), high availability (68 per cent) and cost (68 per cent) as top requirements.
Continued data growth was also a key driver for change, with median annual data growth rates of 20 per cent reported by survey respondents. Most IT organisations must support these growth rates with flat or decreasing budgets, making the efficiency of data centre infrastructure increasingly important for businesses.
“The ActualTech Media survey provides great perspective on the HCIS and SDS markets with results and analyses that simply have not been available in this rapidly growing and evolving category,” said Seth Knox, vice president of product marketing at Atlantis. “For the first time, we have access to quantitative data on hypervisor trends, high availability configuration, evaluation criteria, software versus hardware HCIS preferences and many other dynamics that will shape the HCIS and SDS markets in 2016.”