Three major challenges faced by enterprise infrastructure modernization

Currently, business development often leads to a rapid increase in data volume, resulting in higher demands for data backup and recovery. However, most companies now use traditional IT architecture that scales upward, and are constantly facing new challenges in infrastructure integration, management, and expansion.

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According to the survey, most enterprises do not realize that 70% of their data exists on secondary storage; 49% of the enterprises surveyed said that RTO/RPO targets are the biggest challenge they face; 44% of the enterprises surveyed solve the problem of insufficient storage capacity by adding disks. For most enterprises, an increase in data volume means an increase in secondary storage.

However, secondary storage will occupy a large amount of IT resources, and the overall efficiency is difficult to meet business objectives. At the same time, the IT architecture with multiple data management solutions will create data islands and greatly increase the complexity of the IT environment. Therefore, most companies face the following three challenges.

Infrastructure Integration Challenges

The secondary storage products currently on the market are relatively complex, and the implementation process will consume a lot of manpower and time for enterprises. At the same time, the deployment of multiple different solutions will inevitably create data silos, which will hinder the visibility, effective management and portable migration of all data. Ultimately, enterprises face a variety of pain points such as heavy workload for operation and maintenance personnel, high hardware costs, time-consuming data migration, insufficient use of IT resources, and lack of data insights.

Infrastructure Management Challenges

Traditional IT infrastructure management usually faces pain points such as too many manual processes, time-consuming system integration, vendor lock-in that makes replacement difficult, and difficulty in migrating data to different storage tiers. As a result, enterprises face problems such as difficulty in achieving SLA targets, waste of human resources, high hardware costs, and difficulty in hardware upgrades.

Infrastructure Scaling Challenges

When enterprises expand their infrastructure, they often find that the infrastructure is inflexible, difficult to expand, difficult to meet service level requirements, difficult to predict the performance and cost of the expanded architecture, and difficult to achieve RTO and RPO targets. These will directly affect the ability of enterprises to meet business needs, meet data compliance requirements, and provide data insights for the business, ultimately affecting the overall digitalization process of the enterprise.

To avoid the above three challenges, enterprises must build a new platform that is predictable, highly simplified and integrated.