The high volume of data generated by modern technology is expected to grow even further in the coming years. Data volumes will increase significantly with 5G and the metaverse on the horizon. The consumer market, enterprises, and industries require more intelligent infrastructure and faster connection to support technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), automation, virtual reality (VR), IoT, cloud-native applications, and a general move towards data-centric business models and digitally driven services.
Storing data costs money. How much it costs can depend on varying factors, and volume is undoubtedly one of them. This exponential growth in data volume is expected to have a lasting knock-on effect on compute and storage infrastructure, as well as a company’s bottom line. When storage is managed correctly with the right ecosystem in place, there are opportunities for optimization and intelligent management that can benefit and bring value to businesses.
Safeguarding data could be compared to protecting gold based on the value that data-generated insights bring to businesses that can impact customer experience. Data storage solutions must provide availability, scalability, latency, and resilience without sacrificing security or data protection measures. Business process optimization can be instrumental to success. Hence, storage ecosystems’ performance, agility, and flexibility will determine an organization’s ability to keep pace with the digital evolution.
The real-time nature of data gathering, analysis, processing, storage, and retrieval will require many organizations to take stock of their existing infrastructure and take steps to modernize it. Efficiency will continue to be an essential driver for modern storage ecosystems, not just in terms of operation but also in terms of space usage, performance, and density ratios, which have an associated cost impact.
Reducing the number of servers and application licenses, plus introducing compression and deduplication features, are ways to lower storage capacity requirements and improve efficiency.
Flexibility is another area that needs close consideration as architecture modernizes, including the flexibility to scale capacity with evolving business needs to support data mobility and workload fluctuations. The complexities of choosing the proper storage infrastructure vary from one organization to another. Collaborating with a technology expert will ensure you get a customized solution that fits your business today and future-proofs it to manage the changing loads and data volumes.
Arrow delivers solutions that allow infrastructure experts to dedicate more time to supporting business needs and new projects by providing a customized hardware and software ecosystem to address their evolving storage needs. Through our collaboration with Dell Technologies, we deliver integrated solutions that are easy to deploy and manage.
Whether it is two or three-tiered data storage, hyper-converged, software-defined, or virtual storage infrastructure solutions you need, Arrow can help guide you. Check out our Dell OEM portfolio of storage solutions today.
