Larger enterprises are storing multiple petabytes of data already and many are heading towards storing exabytes. This presents significant economic and management challenges, according to Infinidat, the high-end storage array maker.
‘Traditional hardware-based storage arrays are expensive, hard to manage, and orders of magnitude too small for the coming data age. They must, therefore, evolve into something new: software-defined on-premises enterprise storage clouds,” Infinidat proclaimed in a white paper published this month.