Whitepaper: Building Your Private Cloud Infrastructure - Industry Evolutions, Challenges, and Automation

It goes without saying: the value of data is enormous. Organizations across every industry are collecting all the data they can to tap into ways to analyze, understand and improve their performance. From learning more about customers to better attract and retain them, to understanding industry trends and the organization’s response to them, the ability to properly collect, analyze and translate data into actionable guidance gives organizations an unparalleled competitive advantage.

Tape storage has had a good run. For decades, enterprise organizations have relied on physical tapes to safely store sensitive data. It’s easy to understand why so many large operations have opted to secure their data on tape. Tape storage has long been the most affordable data storage option for preserving data. Tape has been the default because organizations haven’t wanted to mess with something they have grown familiar with operationally. But is tape still a “good thing” in 2021?

Seagate, in partnership with IDC surveyed over 1,500 respondents globally. In the report, CIOs, CTOs, IT VPs, COO/LOBs, storage architects, and solution architects reveal insights into how businesses approach their data management challenges and the new ways to gain business value from a plethora of data being generated from the edge to the cloud.

Public cloud technologies have emerged as part of the digital transformation mega trend that’s reshaping entire industries. While many organizations have invested in moving their resources into the cloud, they’re finding that it isn’t a panacea.

In a cross-industry survey of over 350 IT decision-makers at small, medium, and large U.S. businesses, more than half of the respondents said costs of running workloads in the cloud were higher than estimated – sometimes triple than what was expected.

From sprawling multinational enterprises to operators/providers, organizations across the world are facing mounting technical debt within their legacy infrastructures.

Now that the gloss is wearing from the shiny promise of the public cloud, organizations are increasingly migrating applications and data from public cloud providers (CSPs) to private or on-prem clouds. The drivers for these decisions include a range of issues.