Six Storage Considerations for Cloud Adoption

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Storage Considerations for Cloud Adoption

The right storage strategy can accelerate your cloud journey. Keep these key criteria in mind to help inform the right strategy for your cloud workloads.

1. Performance

Key drivers of hybrid and
multi-cloud strategies

50%
of organizations indicated that improving operational scalability was the most significant factor driving their hybrid/multicloud strategy1
46%
of organizations stated was business agility & innovation the most significant factor driving their hybrid/multicloud strategy1
34%
of organizations indicated that improving application performance is the most significant challenge for their hybrid/multicloud strategy1
Traditional cloud storage solutions can’t deliver the performance next-gen workloads need.

2. Cost

Most organizations struggle to control costs in the cloud.

82%

say managing cloud spend is their top challenge – surpassing security for the first time in a decade2

49%

say they struggle to control costs in the cloud3

74%

now use cost savings as a main cloud success metric2

Only 3 out of 10 of them know where their cloud costs are going4

A key driver of the cloud’s spiraling costs is resource waste.

42%
of CIOs consider cloud waste their top challenge5
75%
of organizations reported an increase in cloud waste in 20223
Most organizations haven’t implemented the tools they need to manage resource waste.

48%
34%
45%

Only

48%

use automated monitoring to optimize cloud costs2

Only

34%

eliminate inactive storage2

Only

45%

use the autoscaling process4

Traditional storage offerings lack automated tools for scaling up and down to reclaim unused resources and optimize spend.

3. Scale up and down

42%
32%

42%
of CIOs consider cloud waste their top challenge3
32%
of orgs estimate they waste money in the cloud2

49%

of cloud-based businesses struggle to control cloud costs2

75%

of organizations
report increase in cloud waste3

Organizations often over-provision cloud storage resources to meet a specific workload requirement. These offerings lack the ability to scale down as well as up, resulting in cloud resource waste and higher cloud spend.

4. Data Sharing

37%

of organizations take a bottom-up (business unit) approach to hybrid and multi-cloud strategy.6

30%

annual growth rate of data storage6

2-3

number of clouds used by average enterprise.6

~6 months

stimated training time for GPT-4 (OpenAI)

Delivering next-generation workloads with faster time to insights requires a data platform that bridges cloud and data silos with great performance across every step of your content workflow or analysis pipeline.

5. Hybrid and Multi-cloud

Hybrid and multi-cloud remain the norm for most organizations.
87%
use multiple clouds2

72%
use hybrid cloud2

Multi-cloud adoption is central to mitigating vendor lock-in concerns.
80%
of enterprises cite managing multicloud as a top cloud challenge2

50%
of organizations use multicloud to mitigate vendor lock-in7

A consistent data storage and management solution across on-prem and multiple clouds is table stakes for most organizations.

6. Lock-in

89%
of organizations use multiple clouds2

50%
of organizations use multi-cloud to mitigate vendor lock-in7

71%
of organizations cite managing multi-cloud as a top cloud challenge2
Most organizations have not found the optimal architecture that avoids lock-in and enables business goals. The right data platform that provides a seamless, consistent experience across all clouds helps to solve these challenges.
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1/451Research VotE: Cloud,Hosting &Managed Services, Hybrid/Multicloud 2022
2/Flexera State of the Cloud Report 2023
3/Cloud Zero:55 Cloud Computing Statistics That Will Blow Your Mind
4/CloudZero The State Of Cloud Cost Intelligence 2022 Cloud Report
5/Zesty Scaling for Success:What’s Driving Technology Executives in 2022?Survey Report
6/451 Survey Data Hub – Voice of the Enterprise:Storage,Budgets 2023
7/Foundry Cloud Computing Study 202

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