Hayden Sadler, Infinidat.

Technology is all about change. It changes to meet the demands of the organisation wrestling with uncertainty. It changes to meet customer and market expectations that flux and flex with capability and innovation. The organisation is challenged to find smart ways of keeping up with tech in order to remain the disruptor, not the disrupted, and so it can fully tap into its potential and remain sustainable while building on the market’s cracked foundations.

This is why hardware remains a critical investment, and why storage should be an enterprise priority. As Forrester points out, storage infrastructure has to remain apace with technology investment to ensure that the organisation can retain its capacity and not be limited in its performance. The research firm believes that just as an organisation’s approaches to technology are evolving, so too should its management and investments into storage – software-defined and cloud-connected storage replacing standalone storage as de facto best practice.