The continued, unabated growth of data and its strategic value is driving a transformation of IT infrastructures as never before. As the enterprises are undergoing digital transformation and, in the process, treating and leveraging data as a strategic capital asset, they are increasingly investing in new technologies to drive IT infrastructure modernization.

The storage industry is facing a wave of transformation, stemming from cloud architectures, software-defined storage, the convergence of compute, and the growing adoption of flash. As enterprises and service providers alike evolve their infrastructures to incorporate these new technologies, they will look to enterprise providers that bring specific expertise in integrating them into next-generation platform offerings.