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The vast majority of respondents polled by DataCore say they plan to or have already moved to software-defined storage, with simplifying different models of storage the primary business driver.<\/p>\n
The study, which polled 426 IT professionals currently using or evaluating various storage models, found that simplifying storage was the primary reason for implementing software-defined storage for 55% of respondents. Future-proofing infrastructure was cited by 53% of those polled, while avoiding hardware lock-in was also cited by more than half (52%) of respondents.<\/p>\n
Despite this, almost one third (31%) of those polled said that cloud storage initiatives failed to reduce costs. 29% noted that managing object storage was ‘difficult’, while 16% said utilising Flash failed to accelerate applications.<\/p>\n
The report also examined levels of spending on various technologies. Not surprisingly, software-defined storage topped the rankings, with 29% of respondents saying more than a tenth of the company’s overall budget was allocated to it. In what was described by DataCore as a surprising finding, 70% of respondents said investing in OpenStack storage was ‘not applicable’.<\/p>\n
Uptake of hyperconverged infrastructure was also lower than expected, the report noted, with 34% of respondents saying they had considered hyperconverged but not deployed it, and an additional 33% saying they were not considering it at all.<\/p>\n