The Changing Landscape of Storage

You may not feel the earth moving, but if you’re managing a virtualized infrastructure or serving as a storage administrator be aware: A disruptive, industry-changing shift is in motion.

Much of what we have come to know about data storage is in a state of collapse. Traditional storage structure—characterized by external storage arrays—once loomed as a standalone promontory on the IT landscape. Today that structure is breaking apart and realigning amidst the fabric of servers, software, and hypervisors.

In this brief, we examine this disruption in detail and what it means to you and your business. But in order to do so, we need to consider four components of the realignment:
• Storage technology base
• Storage consumption model
• Storage integration model
• Storage operational model