A deep dive into the growth of data, its impact on business, and the strategies required for continuously modern storage
Organizations of all sizes, across all industries, are recasting themselves as digital businesses. Nine in 10 organizations have adopted or plan to adopt a “digital-first” approach to business processes, operations, and customer engagement, according to Foundry’s 2021 Digital Business Study.
These digital business models are driven by data. Two-thirds of IT decision-makers who participated in Foundry’s 2022 Data & Analytics Study said the collection and analysis of data have fundamentally changed the way their company conducted business over the past three years, and 88% expect data and analytics to change the way they do business over the next three years.
By Industry
91%
Their success depends in large part on the infrastructure they have in place for collecting, storing, analyzing, using, and protecting the growing volumes of data that organizations are creating or consuming.
Statistics on the growth of data are enough to give any IT leader pause: IDC expects IDC’s Global DataSphere, which it defines as the amount of data created, captured, and replicated in any given year across the world, to more than double in size from 2022 to 2026, from 101 zettabytes to more than 221 zettabytes. For individual businesses, Dell’s 2021 Global Data Protection Index found that organizations are managing more than 10 times the amount of data they did five years ago — from 1.45 petabytes in 2016 to 14.6 petabytes in 2021.
IDC’s Global DataSphere is expected to more than double in size in five years, from 101 zettabytes in 2022 to more than 221 zettabytes in 2026.
Big Data, in context
IDC’s Eric Burgener breaks down the current state of data
The growing volume and variety of data in businesses of all sizes are putting a strain on existing IT infrastructure. Collecting, storing, and managing large amounts of both structured and unstructured data has added complexity and cost to existing storage and data-management systems.
Organizations expect a 35% growth rate for on-premises data capacity and a 39% growth rate for public cloud capacity over the next three years, according to ESG’s 2021 Data Infrastructure Trends report. Separately, ESG’s 2022 Technology Spending Intentions Survey found that 47% of organizations expect to increase data center infrastructure spending in 2022.
Organizations expect a 35% growth rate for on-premises data capacity and a 39% growth rate for public cloud capacity over the next three years
Beyond the logistics of collecting and storing data, IT leaders are tasked with making data more accessible and more useful to the rest of the business — unlocking the true value of all of this information.
Eric Burgener explains the type of storage environment required to help organizations extract value from the growing volume and variety of data in a way that enables IT resources to be used more efficiently while increasing both scalability and performance.
Scalability and performance
Digital business has entered a decidedly hybrid stage. Hybrid work models have emerged from the pandemic, with organizations supporting the workplace flexibility that people have come to expect from their employers. And hybrid cloud environments have emerged as being best to support these new workplace models.
IDC estimates that more than 90% of enterprises are using hybrid cloud environments for production workloads. Although spending on public-cloud-based storage surpassed that of on-premises spend by the end of 2019, it’s clear that some workloads will continue to run on-premises. IDC has found that 84% of enterprises have repatriated at least one workload from the cloud back into on-premises infrastructure — a clear sign that the need for on-premises storage infrastructure is not going away.
More than 90% of enterprises are using hybrid cloud environments for production workloads
Storage infrastructure for
an increasingly hybrid world
84% of enterprises have repatriated at least one workload from the cloud back into on-premises infrastructure
What do these hybrid environments mean for IT teams? For one thing, the always-on, work-from-anywhere operating model creates new attack surfaces and vulnerabilities for the business. Simply put, a lot of legacy data management infrastructure is not up to the task of protecting data or recovering from a successful attack. Dell’s 2021 Global Data Protection Index found that 60% of organizations have experienced data loss due to an exploited vulnerability and 65% of IT decision-makers are not confident that their data/systems can be fully recovered.
Current data protection strategies must evolve toward a more cyber-resilient mindset, which involves balancing detection, protection, response, and recovery to continue operations with minimal downtime, data loss, and business disruption.
60% of organizations have experienced data loss due to an exploited vulnerability
65% of IT leaders are not confident that their data/systems can be fully recovered in the event of a data loss incident
Eric Burgener discusses the need for storage infrastructure that can fully support hybrid cloud environments and the critical importance of protecting data throughout its entire life cycle.
Support for hybrid
cloud environments
From the exponential growth of data to hybrid clouds to constant cyber threats, it has never been more important to deliver a future-ready storage experience.
Adaptable software architectures: Built-in AI and automation eliminate time-consuming tasks and deliver intelligence and insights that adapt as your business needs change. The ability to operate hybrid infrastructure with cloudlike agility makes it easy to provision storage and scale up and out as needed.
Continuously modern storage is based on three key principles:
Eric Burgener explores how storage needs to evolve to enable intelligent analysis, which helps organizations extract more value from their data.
Extracting value from data
The path to understanding and making better use of an increasingly complex data ecosystem lies in adaptable software architectures with intelligent insights that help boost productivity, increase resilience, and reduce risk — so leadership teams can be ready for what comes next.
The future of storage is software-driven. Are you ready?
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1. IDC, “Worldwide IDC Global DataSphere Forecast, 2022–2026,” Doc # US49018922, May 2022
2. IDC, “IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Cloud 2020 Predictions,” Doc # US44640719, October 2019
3. IDC, “Repatriation of Workloads from Shared to Dedicated Infrastructure Environments Update: More Focus on Operational Side,” Doc # US47961422, March 2022
4. IDC, “Adopting a Technology Rotation Program from Dell Improves Operational and Cost Efficiencies for Storage,” Doc # US48216621, September 2021
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Continuously modern storage for whatever’s next
Growing complexity and costs
of organizations have adopted or plan to adopt a “digital-first” approach to business processes, operations, and customer engagement
1,000+
96%
<1,000
86%
96%
94%
93%
91%
90%
88%
84%
Education
Government
Services
Retail
Financial services
Technology
Manufacturing
Healthcare
1
60%
65%
39%
35%
3
Multicloud ecosystem flexibility: Organizations need the ability to use data anywhere and everywhere. Moving on-premises data to the cloud for archiving and long-term data retention can reduce costs and improve data mobility. An IDC analysis of the benefits of three-year storage refresh cycles compared with the costs associated with maintaining an aging storage infrastructure over a six-year period found that an organization can achieve 60% savings and see a 40% improvement in IT storage management efficiency . Seamless and transparent movement of application data from on-premises to cloud enables organizations to leverage the public cloud for agile and economical storage.
2
Comprehensive cyber-resiliency: Intrinsic security, advanced detection, and cyber-recovery enable organizations to innovate securely. Robust zero-trust security architectures protect high-value information at each point in a potential data breach. Cyber-recovery capabilities provide modern protection against cyberattacks such as ransomware with advances such as data isolation and immutability and continuous anomaly detection to detect suspicious activity. Automation and orchestration capabilities help reduce complexity — and risk.
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