"Storage Wars" is a popular reality TV show, but the title may seem all too real to enterprises trying to deal with storage demands as they drown in data.
Managing Your Data
Disruptor #1: A shift from focusing on managing your storage to managing your data (through real-time data analytics).
Data, not the underlying physical storage, is what matters. However, traditional storage systems are "big dumb buckets" that provide precious little insight into what data is growing, what applications or users are accessing it, or what is consuming storage performance and why. Next-generation storage systems are "data-aware," with real-time analytics built directly into the storage itself, providing real-time information on data and performance at massive scale.