Data Management Infrastructure Dynamics

The amount of data the world captures and consumes continues to increase exponentially. Modern leaders have to balance this unprecedented demand for scale against separate but integrated complexities including growing ethical and regulatory pressures around sustainability, data protection and governance. As a result, the excess of data, and the scope of proper data management is shaping up to be a far greater challenge than most IT leaders ever imagined.

To measure the impact on businesses and to highlight the opportunities and issues that will arise as leaders juggle competing priorities, Hitachi Vantara interviewed 1,288 decision-makers in large organizations across 12 countries.

Our research quantified the extent to which organizations are drowning in data; by 2025 large organizations will be storing more than 65PB. That means within two years, their data storage infrastructure will need to handle nearly twice as much data as it does now. Most tellingly, 75% of leaders surveyed are concerned their current infrastructure won’t be flexible enough to scale and 71% are concerned it can’t adapt to these changing needs. The rising tide of data presents serious challenges for leaders who are simultaneously struggling to keep data secure and under increasing pressure to reduce the impact on the environment.