A new model for enterprise data storage: stakes, trends and recommendations.

We live henceforth in a digital world where data is our most critical asset, in terms of services, security, intelligence, business, knowledge and competition.

It is more and more exciting to observe that advances in cloud computing, analytics, mobile technologies, social platforms and security technologies continues to grow at an unprecedented rate.

This new reality helps organizations better uncover, understand and harness their data for greater business insights; make real-time decisions based on the data available to their organization and to collect near-time insights and drive strategic business decisions.

In this context, a new model for enterprise data storage should be flexible, secure, scalable, agile and optimized for interoperability across hardware and software solutions.

Connectikpeople.co, soon #Retinknow recommends organizations to choose the environment that fits their needs, whether that is an integrated hardware/software solution through, enterprise-class software on top of existing infrastructure or storage-as-a-service via the cloud. 

In our highly aggressive business environment where enterprises are looking for the means to efficiently store and mine their data while ensuring privacy and security, vendors should be able to provide greater efficiency to enterprises looking to better manage, organize and use data as a competitive tool.

With a software defined storage strategy, vendors should combine data management systems to make it easier for organizations to retrieve insights in near real-time to create increased efficiencies.