Why Now is the Time to Optimize Your Cloud Storage

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Why Now is the Time to Optimize Your Cloud Storage

Cloud operations are the lever that elevates the value of digital transformation. And data is the fulcrum.

So, whatever level your organization had reached designing, developing and/or deploying a cloud migration strategy when the pandemic rerouted IT priorities, the time to return to that work has come.

Why? Here are two big reasons:

  • Data Loads Growing Heavier – Market research, analysis and advisory firm IDC predicts that in fewer than five years 175 zettabytes (175 ZB) of data will be in use across the worldwide spectrum of industries. An increase of 32 ZB over IDC’s 2018 forecast, this projection for 2025 represents a truly remarkable compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 60%. IDC expects that half this data load will rest on public clouds, such as AWS (Amazon Web Services.)1
  • Hybrid Work is Becoming Standard Operating Procedure – Per Microsoft’s January 2021 Work Trend Index survey, 66% of business leaders are considering redesigning office space for hybrid work (i.e., a “blended model where some employees return to the workplace and others continue to work from home”), 73% of workers want flexible remote work options, and 67% of employees want more in-person work or collaboration post-pandemic. These statistics add up to more and more data moving through clouds, with more and more data being stored on clouds – private and public.2
Given these trends, your organization – whether small to mid-size business or large-scale enterprise – will need cloud operations to provide your business with five types of leverage:
  • Rapid deployment to any cloud environment (often referred to as “lift and shift” workflows)
  • Strong back-up capabilities for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
  • High systems availability across all networks
  • High security assurance across all network operations
  • Automated synchronization between on-premises data centers and private and/or public clouds

What Defines Optimal Cloud Storage

Optimized cloud storage solutions enable continual, seamless digital transformations by allowing your business to innovate with new technologies at a pace and scope that fits your IT budget.

Immediate benefits of optimizing include:

Performance & Portability

As your response time on native cloud storage rises, data replicates quickly and easily across zones, regions and clouds.

Security, Privacy & Protection

Optimal cloud storage puts data security in your control, facilitates continuous regulatory compliance and guarantees full restoration in case of disaster – physical or virtual.

Cost Reduction

Without costly disruptive transitions, your total cost of ownership (TCO) for native cloud storage drops dramatically.
In sum, optimal cloud storage elevates your operational performance, lends control over your IT costs and frees you from locking into cloud vendors.

How Can HighVail Help Optimize Your Cloud Storage

Whether you set your organization’s IT strategy or execute it, HighVail Systems can help you discover cloud storage solution that fits your business:

  • We can assist in constructing a business case for investing in cloud storage – projecting cost savings and modeling return on investment.
  • We can coordinate your search for the right technology and solutions – such as Cloud Volumes ONTAP from NetApp, a recognized leader in hybrid cloud data services and data management.
  • We can make deploying cloud storage simple – providing expertise from system sizing and initial deployment all the way through on-going management.

 

Notes and source:
1″Worldwide Global DataSphere Forecast, 2021–2025: The World Keeps Creating More Data — Now, What Do We Do with It All?“
2 “The Next Disruption is Hybrid Work – Are We Ready?”

 

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