Storage has finally become an interesting field, full of innovation and change, addressing growing new requirements for storage flexibility, density and performance. The falling prices of flash, the introduction of various flavors of storage class memory, combined with increasing appetite for commoditization of the data center infrastructure, has helped fuel the innovation in how data is stored and accessed.
Companies are faced with the challenges of how to store their ever growing data efficiently, at a cost point that is palatable to CTOs and CFOs, while keeping the right levels of performance and SLAs in order to provide storage services to end users and applications. At the same time, internal IT organizations are facing the challenge of competing with flexibility and price points offered externally through public clouds.