Object Storage Explained: Past, Present, and Future
This is part of Solutions Review’s Premium Content Series, a collection of contributed columns written by industry experts in maturing software categories. In this submission, Hitachi Vantara VP of Product Management, Storage, Dan McConnell offers his take on the past, present, and future of object storage in: object storage explained. As enterprises continue to shift more data and workloads to the cloud, it’s put a premium on finding storage solutions that integrate the cloud with existing systems and data. Every minute a business’s data sits idly, competitors are using their own data to win over your customers. More than ever, organizations need to unlock the business value of their stored data. Visibility remains a challenge, however, as this recent survey found that 71% of IT leaders believe a single point of data management across hybrid environments is the most important factor guiding hybrid cloud storage strategies; that requires a tool that spans environments – whether it