In March 2015, Tintri storage surveyed 1,000 data center professionals about the storage topics and trends shaping their world. We explored their top pain points and plans to adopt new technologies. Dig into this deck for all the results.

1. June 2, 2015
State of Storage
Study 2015
Scott Buchanan
sbuchanan@tintri.com

2. 1 Respondent Profile
2 Storage Pain
3 Virtualization Vision
4 What’s Next?

3. Respondent
Profile

4. Mix of PRIMARY job
responsibilities
57% of respondents have
>5 years of experience in
current function
Respondents by Role
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5. Respondents by Storage Type Used
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Grouped
respondents into
one of three
categories based
on current storage
provider(s) [Dell, EMC, Fujitsu,
Hitachi, HP, IBM,
NetApp]
[Nimble Storage,
Nutanix, Pure Storage,
SolidFire, Tegile, Tintri]

6. Storage Pain

7. Biggest Storage Pain Points
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8. Source of Pain? Data Center Disconnect
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2%
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
75%
2014 2015 2016 2017
82%
2018
Percentage of workloads
that have been virtualized

9. Biggest Storage Pain Points by Role
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10. Biggest Storage Pain Points by Type Used
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11. Storage Tactics : Strategic Projects
Ratio of Tactics to Strategic Projects
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Tintri 0.9 : 1
All Other Providers >2.0 : 1

12. Virtualization
Vision

13. 38% of
respondents are
using multiple
hypervisors
Current Hypervisor
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14. Spending Shift Favors Storage + Private Cloud
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Server /
compute
Network Storage Private
Cloud
Public
Cloud
“The key to containing
costs is finding storage
that is built for
virtualization and cloud”

15. What’s Next

16. Storage Provider Shift Favors ‘Emerging’
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LEGACY
-3.7%
EMERGING
+11.8%

17. Storage Buying Criteria
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Criteria used to select current provider:
1
2
3
4
PERFORMANCE
EASE OF USE
COST PER GIGABYTE
VENDOR RELATIONSHIP
Criteria used to select next provider:
1
2
3
4
PERFORMANCE
EASE OF USE
COST PER GIGABYTE
VENDOR RELATIONSHIP
“If you always think what you always thought, you’ll always get what you always got.”

18. Storage Innovation (Open-ended)
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Most recent innovation: Desired next innovation:

19. Q & A

20. Thank You
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