Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 21 | Page 19

LATEST INTELLIGENCE ACCELERATE WORKLOAD PERFORMANCE PRESENTED BY Download whitepaper here O rganisations are running their business on exponentially more data, created by more users, from different devices and through different digital processes. While some data growth is fuelled by new applications, it also arrives increasingly from non- traditional IT sources, including digital media, machines and Edge devices. Edge IoT devices are generating a massive amount of data that must be managed, monitored, stored and analysed. Deciding where to perform each of these www.intelligentcio.com functions is critical to supporting new data-driven business processes. These data types demand more varied approaches to storage than traditional structured data. This creates challenges to storage infrastructure performance, management and protection. In a digital enterprise, there is constant change through data consumption, sales, creation, processing and analysis by multiple application and business teams. Meanwhile, current and emerging storage and infrastructure technologies such as software-defined, all-flash, high-performance and integrated systems are disrupting the status quo. n INTELLIGENTCIO 19