enterprise storage array challenges covid-19 survey

In June 2020, we surveyed 500 IT decision makers across the US, UK, Germany and France and asked them the question below.

the survey

What are the biggest challenges your organization is currently experiencing with your enterprise storage array environment?

  • It is difficult to automate at-scale
  • It is expensive
  • It is time consuming to maintain
  • We lack in-house expertise
  • It is not ideally suited for our new workloads (e.g. containers, NoSQL databases, etc.)
  • It does not match our future data centre vision
  • We have no challenges with our enterprise array storage environment
  • We do not currently use an enterprise array storage environment and
  • Don’t know.

the results

% of respondents who felt their existing enterprise storage array environment is difficult to scale:

WW: 51%
US: 42%
UK: 49%
France: 62%
Germany: 59%

% of respondents who felt their existing enterprise storage array environment is expensive:

WW: 50%
US: 44%
UK: 57%
France: 57%
Germany: 49%

% of respondents who felt their existing enterprise storage array environment is time consuming to maintain:

WW: 49%
US: 50%
UK: 50%
France: 44%
Germany: 52%

% of respondents who felt they lacked the in-house expertise to manager their existing enterprise storage array environment:

WW: 36%
US: 31%
UK: 36%
France: 42%
Germany: 42%

% of respondents who felt their existing enterprise storage array environment is not ideally suited for our new workloads (e.g. containers, NoSQL databases, etc.):

WW: 34%
US: 34%
UK: 36%
France: 33%
Germany: 33%

% of respondents who felt their existing enterprise storage array environment does not match their future data center vision:

WW: 28%
US: 26%
UK: 30%
France: 29%
Germany: 29%