The data describes the pain points for data storage in 2016 and 2017, according to IT decision-makers. It reveals that 47% IT decision-makers had problems that stemmed from the growth of data and capacity.
Data/capacity growth | 55 | 47 |
Meeting disaster recovery requirements | 29 | 31 |
High cost of storage (Capex) | 30 | 25 |
Growth from new applications | 10 | 22 |
Delivering adequate storage performance (e.g. throughput, IOPS) | 29 | 22 |
Storage migrations | 13 | 21 |
Managing data stored with third parties/cloud environments | 19 | |
High cost of storage (Opex) | 18 | 16 |
Meeting compliance/regulatory/governance requirements | 14 | 16 |
Lack of skilled staff | 14 | 16 |
Multiple storage silos | 17 | 15 |
Meeting backup Windows | 17 | 13 |
Other | 5 | 3 |