“People are just not prepared to pay an additional premium purely for a legacy name,” continued Trevaskis. “Modern systems offer performance improvements, greater security, increased efficiency, data integrity and protection but with the enhanced flexibility to support the requirements of applications today whether that is on-line transaction processing where time is critical to customer retention or the demands of a virtual desktop environment.”
“Many organisations have seen software investments disappear because their vendor has brought out a new platform and to avail of new features they must replace the hardware and the software. People are just not prepared to pay an additional premium purely for a legacy name,” Peter Trevaskis, Dell
Solutions director with Trilogy Technologies, Rob Paddon told TechPro that the choice of storage options by Irish companies at present is always dependent on the projected volume and workloads that the organisation anticipates in the months and years ahead.
This is driven, he said, as much by the business as by technology decisions. “For the IT department, they will need to factor in things such as VDI and other thin client initiatives, much greater need for video and similar file storage and business intelligence and analytical needs as well as traditional drivers for storage such as compliance”.
Paddon added that if organisations do decide to take a “deeper look” at storage options then it “makes sense to also look at storage virtualisation and hybrid models where storage can be managed across private and public clouds”.
Unified console
For Connolly of Comsys the enterprise storage “options being discussed” by those in the industry and clients alike focus around “flash disks, storage-tiering and intra-SAN virtualisation”. Connolly added that more recently a move to virtualising multiple-vendor storage in one management console has become “increasingly available and the software that allows this to function is the next major game changer in the storage space”.
Baird, meanwhile, said that in the Irish market at present some of the more “traditional” storage choices are still quite prevalent. Indeed, he said “customers that continue to run fibre channel to their hosts” because of the belief that this “how storage should be” are particularly common.
“In the enterprise for the future the technology deployed today should not be an inhibitor to business agility for tomorrow,” said Baird. In keeping with this he pinpoints the development of “always on operations” from IBM, Netapp and HP as big steps forward.
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