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Data Storage Challenges in 2022

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Hello! You are invited to participate in our survey. It aims to examine the current state of the data storage market and assess the challenges that our market faces. It will take approximately 15 minutes to complete this questionnaire. These results will then be used for an upcoming Open-E white paper. Your participation in this study is completely voluntary. There are no foreseeable risks associated with this project. However, if you feel uncomfortable answering any questions, you can withdraw from the survey at any point. It is very important for us to learn your opinions.

In this survey, you will have required, not required, and requested answers. The last of these is not necessary to be filled in; however, you may get a reminder to do this nonetheless before completing your submission.

Market Situation

Which of these trends is your company most interested in now?

Data Capacity Growth

Hybrid Storage (mixed on-prem and cloud)

Artificial Intelligence

Edge Storage

Virtualization/Hyper-Converged (OS-level)

Containerization

Data Storage Virtualization

Other

Which storage technology is your company most interested in at the moment?

NVMe

Persistent Memory/ NVDIMM NVMeof

NVRAM

HDD

SSD

Other

Which of these trends interests your company the most in terms of the near future?

Data Capacity Growth

Hybrid Storage (mixed on-prem and cloud)

Artificial Intelligence

Edge Storage

Virtualization/Hyper-Converged (OS-level)

Containerization

Data Storage Virtualization

Other

What are the primary capabilities that you would like from your storage infrastructure (that you are not getting)? Select all that apply.

High availability (metro clustering, synchronous data mirroring, zero downtime)

Improved business continuity/Disaster recovery (from remote site or public cloud)

The ability to expand storage capacity/refresh hardware without disruption

Faster application responsiveness/storage performance

Storing large amounts of data (including media, archival, and backup) cost effectively

Reduced hardware vendor dependency

Flexibility to evolve the storage architecture via software

Predictive analytics, including insights and optimization across existing and new systems

Private cloud storage (easy to manage storage-as-a-service to subscribers/employees)

Cloud/object storage integration (automatically and transparently move files between NAS and cloud/object storage)

Nothing – we are getting all the capabilities we need

Other

How important do you think the following IT infrastructures are to your customers?

	High- very important	Medium- somewhat important	Low-not important	Not applicable
Software-defined storage	High- very important	Medium- somewhat important	Low-not important	Not applicable

Hyper-converged storage	High- very important	Medium- somewhat important	Low-not important	Not applicable

Traditional SAN	High- very important	Medium- somewhat important	Low-not important	Not applicable

Traditional NAS	High- very important	Medium- somewhat important	Low-not important	Not applicable

NVMe/NVMe-oF	High- very important	Medium- somewhat important	Low-not important	Not applicable

Back-up archive	High- very important	Medium- somewhat important	Low-not important	Not applicable

Are you concerned about the potential rise in the costs of power and cooling of servers?

Yes

Maybe

What do you feel are the most important benefits of software-defined storage? Select all that apply.

Extend the life of existing storage assets

Minimize disruption with changes in storage

Better visibility across storage

Future-proof your infrastructure

Automate frequent or complex storage operations

Simplify management of different types of storage

Lower hardware costs by shopping among several vendors

Abstraction from hardware, no vendor lock-in

Business continuity/disaster recovery

Deliver higher performance storage

Other

Where are you in your deployment of software-defined storage?

It’s the standard

Major deployments

Have a few nodes

Strongly considering (but haven't deployed yet)

I would like to learn more

Not considering

Not applicable

Other

In your own words, what trends in data storage habits have you noticed over the last 5 years?

Have you experienced issues related to a lack of hardware?

Yes

Have these issues caused you to delay your data storage expansion?

Yes

Do you think those trends will continue for the next five years?

Yes

Maybe

Open-E JovianDSS

This section focuses on your thoughts regarding Open-E JovianDSS

Have you ever utilized Open-E JovianDSS software?

Yes