Intelligent Data Centres Issue 09 | Page 15

LATEST INTELLIGENCE Enterprise Strategy Group | Getting to the bigger truth.™ PRESENTED BY INVESTIGATING AND CONFIRMING THE VALUE OF INTELLIGENT STORAGE FROM HPE ACHIEVING TRANSFORMATIONAL BENEFITS WITH HPE’S INTELLIGENT MULTI-CLOUD STORAGE SOLUTIONS I Introduction Data has more value today than ever before. In the case of newly emerging digital businesses, the data has become the business itself. But even for companies that generate their revenue in more traditional ways, their data can make them better. It helps them understand their customers better than before. They support their end-users better by running a more agile IT function. Even logistical operations such as manufacturing, shipping, and billing improve measurably. A company’s competitive success today depends greatly on how well it harnesses the value of its data. However, it can be challenging to keep pace with the increases in the scale of data being generated as well www.intelligentdatacentres.com White Paper Investigating and Confirming the Value of Intelligent Storage from HPE Achieving Transformational Benefits with HPE’s Intelligent Multi-cloud Storage Solutions By Scott Sinclair, Senior Analyst and Monya Keane, Senior Research Analyst October 2018 This ESG White Paper was commissioned by HPE and Intel and is distributed under licence from ESG. © 2019 by The Enterprise Strategy Group, Inc. All Rights Reserved. as users’ demands for accessibility. And modern data accessibility requirements extend well beyond the data centre, from the edge to the cloud. Maximising the transformational value of digital information requires data to be leveraged at both the optimal time and the optimal place. This new requirement poses a challenge—since data has “weight,” it is costly and time consuming to move across locations. A modern data storage infrastructure that spans both on- and off-premises resources, with the intelligence to empower data, is absolutely necessary if a business wants to harness data’s value fully. Older, siloed storage environments limit efficiency and cost-effectiveness too greatly. They are just too expensive to procure, too expensive to manage and too expensive to scale. ◊ Issue 09 15