Become Data-First and Unlock the Power of Your Data
Your data is your superpower; the secret weapon that gets you ahead of your competition and keeps you there. Adopting a mature data-first strategy makes companies more competitive, faster to market, quicker to innovate, and, importantly, better at mitigating risks.
But traditional approaches to managing, storing, and securing data are unsuitable for today’s market challenges of rapid, unpredictable data growth, the complexity of data silos, and relentless cyberattacks.
Accelerating your data-first modernization goals demands solutions that reduce complexity, provide uncompromisingly high performance, and protect your most valuable asset: your data
The cloud provides growing businesses with storage capabilities that scale on-demand, and pay-per-use pricing models. But the public cloud also comes with concerns around security and control. The hybrid cloud model, with some data on-premises and others in one or more likely multiple clouds, is one of the major sources of complexity.
Organizations today must cope with an unprecedented amount of data, while the adoption of hybrid cloud — and new workload demands — have burdened them with incredible complexity across the data lifecycle.
Why cloud?
• Software and Hardware Refresh Savings
• Flexible Capacity
• Security Threats
• Software End of Support
Businesses looking to unlock the power and potential of their data must find a way to reduce both complexity and data management costs. But how?
This eBook looks at how HPE storage solutions brought to you by ACP CreativIT can help accelerate your transformation to a data-first company by radically simplifying data management, and offering the most comprehensive solution for storing, managing, and protecting your data.
The global volume of data generated is expected to double by 2026 1
On-demand data and the cloud experience from cloud-to-edge
So, in today’s complex hybrid environments, how do organizations simplify and overcome their siloed data architectures?
The answer: a cloud model… operating everywhere that data needs to be.
Today, almost every IT leader considers a mature cloud operations on-premises as the single most important step to eliminating complexity. 2 This maturity comes from having simple data management and self-serve capabilities for the lines of business and application admins.
Recognizing this, HPE Storage provides an intuitive cloud experience to all workloads—everywhere, accelerating your transformation from being an IT operator to becoming a service provider. Ultimately you end up spending less time managing infrastructure and more time focused on innovation; the ingenuity and creativity that elevates operations, overcomes challenges, gains efficiencies and provide insights. (It’s worth noting, that’s what ACP CreativIT is all about!)
The benefits of being data-first
Remember how data is your business’s competitive secret weapon? According to research by ESG, data-first leaders— those with the most advanced maturity through on-premises data management and infrastructure offerings—are 3 :
• Faster and healthier businesses: 20 times more likely to beat competitors to market by multiple quarters.
• More innovative and able to exceed business goals: 49 percent more innovative than organizations with little data-first maturity.
• Better able to mitigate risk: For example, data-first leaders are almost five times more likely to be highly resilient to data loss from ransomware.
HPE expands GreenLake storage offerings
Recently HPE announced new file, block, disaster and backup recovery data services designed to help businesses eliminate data silos, reduce costs and complexity, and improve performance.
These new file storage data services deliver scale-out, enterprise-grade performance for data-intensive workloads, and expanded block services provide mission-critical storage with mid-range economics. These new solutions leverage the flexible architecture of HPE Alletra Storage, allowing businesses to store, manage and protect their data across a hybrid cloud environment from one unified platform.
See Page 4 for more on these breakthrough solutions.
HPE Storage provides:
• One unified cloud experience for simpler management
• One universal architecture for block and file for improved economics and flexibility
• One integrated experience for data protection across hybrid cloud
• One portfolio for all infrastructure, powered by global AIOps
