On-premises file storage usage: 52%. On-premises object storage usage: 48%. On-premises block storage usage: 47%.

Object storage solutions are offered as a software-defined storage layer atop existing storage resources, via one of three models: 1) as dedicated storage appliance, 2) as part of unified storage platforms, or 3) as cloud-based services consumed through a public or private cloud provider. Object storage has evolved from a minor role to an integral component of enterprise storage.

Its Virtual Storage Platform (VSP) One Object offering is part of the company’s VSP One unified storage platform and complements its Hitachi Content Platform object storage product. Strategy. Hitachi Vantara’s object storage vision lacks the dynamism of competitors, with VSP One Object positioned as a component of its VSP One unified storage. It delivers solid innovations including on-premises S3 Tables, hardware-enforced immutability, and hybrid-cloud functionality.

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On average, respondents reported 16% in on-premises object storage, 16% in cloud-based object storage, 18% in on-premises NAS storage, 17% in cloud-based NAS storage, 18% in on-premises block storage, and 15% in cloud-based block storage.

Note that these benchmarks do not include object storage with scale-out characteristics and can’t be directly compared with cloud-based storage. SAN-based block storage dominates on-premises storage deployments. More than half of enterprise storage today is in a storage area network (SAN). Enterprises with less than 5,000 TB of installed storage reported that SAN accounts for 76% of that storage on average; those with environments of 30,000 TB or more reported a mean of 52% (see Figure 10).

This is a snapshot of Forrester’s data on the storage and management of data at enterprises.

Existing utilization and storage benchmarks reveal a shifting perspective on storage management, and they show that storage availability is relatively constant despite the size of deployment. According to ISG data: Utilization averages hover between 60% and 72%. Procuring, delivering, and configuring additional storage takes time. A best practice is keeping a buffer of storage capacity to avoid potential logistics problems from deploying new storage, like a global supply chain slowdown.

object storage, respectively, stored ‘100%.’

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