Storage refreshes are time-consuming and expensive, and they could put your data at risk. This can impact your availability and make it hard for you to conduct backups. The good news is IT teams are increasingly finding ways to tap into rapidly developing technologies to escape the never-ending refresh cycle. You can now lower your expenses and gain efficiencies by moving to a flexible, consumption-based storage model. Hybrid cloud options allow you to operationalize your monthly costs and scale your storage on-demand. View to learn: --The current technology roadmaps to software-defined storage. --How flash storage and hyperconverged infrastructure can make 10 gigabyte per second transfer rates and up to a 10x boost in system and application performance the new normal. --How you can get business analytics in five clicks or less. --Why the rapid adoption of IoT technology is burdening storage and how you can address it. --Ways you can use multi-cloud storage to better protect data. Get yourself out of the old, draining refresh cycle and make a shift that will help position your IT team as strategic business partners.

1. TRENDS FOR 2018
TOP 5 STORAGE
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

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3. For example, you might accidentally
leave data on your old system. This
can impact your availability and make
it hard for you to conduct backups.
STORAGE
REFRESHES
ARE TIME-
CONSUMING,
EXPENSIVE AND
CARRY RISK

4. Hybrid cloud options allow
you to operationalize your
monthly costs and scale
your storage on-demand.
HYBRID CLOUD
OPTIONS ENABLE
A FLEXIBLE,
CONSUMPTION-
BASED STORAGE
MODEL

5. Ask yourself:
a) Still trying to figure out a strategy
b) Have a plan and implementing
c) We’re there and it’s working
d) We thought we were there but its not working
WHICH OF THESE BEST DESCRIBES
YOUR ORGANIZATIONS CURRENT
APPROACH TO THE HYBRID CLOUD?

6. ALL major storage vendors have a roadmap toward Software-Defined Storage and
Data Analytics for Business Intelligence setting up revenue building outcomes
leveraging IoT for Customers.
Bi-Modal Solutions bridging
traditional infrastructure gaps
Cloud Solutions and Managed Services
options assist with all Client maturities
SDS with Analytics prepare for
automation/orchestration
FLASH
Current Flash
Bigger Flash
capacities
Faster Flash
HCI
Scale-out
architecture
New-Style of
Storage
Data Lake
ANALYTICS
Performance
Capacity
Data Profiles
Data Management
SW-DEFINED
STORAGE
Single GUI
Operations “5-clicks”
or less
APIs for 3rd party
management
Data Mobility
IOT – DATA
ANALYTICS
Business
Intelligence Tools
Data Science
enablement
Outcome-based
Revenue
CURRENT TECHNOLOGY ROADMAPS

7. INNOVATER
2.5% are risk
takers who
have the
resources
and desire
to try new
things, even
if they fail.
EARLY
ADOPTER EARLY MAJORITY
34% take their time
before adopting a new
idea. They are willing
to embrace a new
technology as long as
they understand how it
fits with their lives.
LATE MAJORITY
34% adopt in reaction to
peer pressure, emerging
norms, or economic
necessity. Most of the
uncertainty around an idea
must be resolved before
they adopt.
LAGGARD
16% are traditional and
make decisions based on
past experience. They
are often economically
unable to take risks on
new ideas.
13.5% are
considered the
“one to check
in with” for new
information
and reduce
uncertainty
about a new
technology
TECHNOLOGY
ADOPTION
CURVE
Varying rates of
adopting new
technologies

8. TOP 5 STORAGE
TRENDS FOR 2018

9. All-flash +
hyperconvergence =
lightening-fast
backend
Transfer rates
of 10 gigabytes
per second will
be norm
Storage class
memory will deliver
up to 10x boost in
performance
Warning: Shortages
as vendors struggle
to meet demand
TREND
ONE
FLASH WILL GET BIGGER
AND FASTER

10. TREND
TWO
2018 WILL BE THE YEAR
OF SERVICES DELIVERY
HCI projected to
grow from $2B in
2016 to $5B in 2019
Micro-services
such as separate
storage or backups
will wane
Consolidated services
with complete
virtualized
infrastructure will rise

11. TREND
THREE
BUSINESS ANALYTICS
IN FIVE CLICKS OR LESS
Analytics will no
longer be just “nice
to have”
More reliance on analytics
to drive performance,
availability and data
management
More vendors will
embed analytics tools
into solutions

12. TREND
FOUR
ENTERPRISES WILL
FLOCK TO SOFTWARE-
DEFINED STORAGE
Vendors rolling out
more software-defined
services
IoT devices are proliferating
and collecting massive
amounts of useful data
HCI will be the
foundation of the data
lake for most IT
organizations

13. TREND
FIVE
MULTI-CLOUD STORAGE
WILL BETTER PROTECT
YOUR DATA
Data replication will reduce
risks of data loss and
downtime
Hybrid delivery models and
storing workloads across
multiple clouds will rise

14. Ask yourself:
BASED ON THESE TRENDS,
WHICH INITIATIVE DO YOU FEEL
MOST CLOSELY ALIGNS WITH
YOUR ORGANIZATION’S
NEEDS/PRIORITIES IN 2018?
d) Software-defined storage
e) Multi-cloud storage
a) Flash
b) Hyperconverged infrastructure
c) Analytics

15. The longer you wait to shift to a
hyperconverged storage model, the harder
it will be to keep pace with business
demands. Legacy environments cannot
support the IT transformation that you
need to remain competitive.
If you’re not sure which types of
storage are best for you, a partner can
guide you in the right direction. Working
with a partner can help you bridge your
storage gaps, boost your efficiencies,
and stay ahead in your market.
GETTING READY
FOR 2018 REALLY
MEANS GETTING
READY FOR 2020

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18. Author:
Patrick Conway
Practice Manager,
Forsythe Storage Solutions
www.forsythe.com
Forsythe is a leading enterprise IT company,
providing advisory services, security, hosting
and technology solutions for Fortune 1000
organizations. Forsythe helps clients optimize,
modernize and innovate their IT to become
agile, secure, digital businesses.