Six Storage Considerations for Cloud Adoption

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

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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Six Storage Considerations for Cloud Adoption

Storage Considerations for Cloud Adoption

1. Performance

Key drivers of hybrid and multi-cloud strategies

2. Cost

82%

49%

74%

48%

34%

45%

3. Scale up and down

49%

75%

4. Data Sharing

37%

30%

2-3

~6 months

5. Hybrid and Multi-cloud

Hybrid and multi-cloud remain the norm for most organizations.

Multi-cloud adoption is central to mitigating vendor lock-in concerns.

6. Lock-in

Key drivers of hybrid and
multi-cloud strategies