{"id":1749,"date":"2026-04-07T14:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/data-storage\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:14:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:14:35","slug":"hidden-in-plain-sight-the-business-value-of-enterprise-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solutionsreview.com\/data-storage\/hidden-in-plain-sight-the-business-value-of-enterprise-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden in Plain Sight: The Business Value of Enterprise Storage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Infinidat<\/a>‘s Eric Herzog offers this exclusive commentary on the business value of enterprise storage hidden in plain sight.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Business value has become a tremendous differentiator in the enterprise storage market. This is a huge shift from the days when technical value alone<\/em> reigned supreme in past decades. Today, business value and technical value must work hand-in-hand for a viable enterprise storage infrastructure that supports and optimizes a business to achieve its strategic goals in a data-centric world. However, understanding the finer points of this hidden gem of \u201cvalue\u201d that gets CIOs very excited, when they discover it, is not always easy and can be inadvertently overlooked.<\/p>\n

Decoding the business value of enterprise storage takes much more than a \u201cdecoder ring\u201d that you may have had as a kid. Rather, it starts with mapping out the elements that need to come together in a comprehensive fashion to quantify enterprise storage.<\/p>\n

Mapping the Elements<\/strong><\/h4>\n

The first element of business is payback<\/em>. How fast and what payback do you get on the enterprise storage solution you deploy? In the past, it was acceptable to have a payback period of years <\/em>for a storage array to \u201cpay for itself.\u201d However, expectations have changed, and the speed of data-driven business has accelerated exponentially. C-suite executives want payback on an IT investment within months<\/em>, not years. When an enterprise storage platform can pay for itself within one year, the payback establishes strong business value for the storage infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Return on investment (ROI) is another important element, calculating the percentage that the storage system is delivering over a period of time. Is 10 percent ROI or 25 percent ROI over three years sufficient? No, it would be anemic. You are smart to want an ROI that is well over 100 percent over a three-year period, so you can make a strong case that the decision to invest in enterprise storage was the right decision for the business.<\/p>\n

At the same time, a potent element of business value is lowering capital expenditures (CAPEX) and operational expenditures (OPEX), while maintaining or improving enterprise storage performance, capacity, cyber resilience, and management. You want to reduce the total costs of your enterprise storage operations compared to your previous storage infrastructure \u2013 and do it by a double-digit amount, which is now possible. It can be measured by immediate cost savings and annual cost reduction.<\/p>\n

Today, enterprises can expand usable storage capacity at a significantly lower cost and reduce expenses related to hardware, licensing and data center overhead, yet without compromising performance and ease-of-use. This uncompromising approach to cost savings is enabled by a high-density architecture and advanced data reduction capabilities, which you should seek out in an enterprise storage platform.<\/p>\n

Reducing Unplanned System Downtime<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Reducing unplanned system downtime is also a critical element of business value. With almost all enterprises operating at 365x24x7, when an enterprise storage system ensures 100 percent uptime, the business operations of an enterprise are better supported. No downtime translates into no operational business disruption, no customer disruption, and no revenue-generating opportunity disruption. An enterprise can save millions of dollars a year by avoiding gross revenue losses due to unplanned outages.<\/p>\n

High availability of the enterprise storage platform means quicker load times, and this has cost and revenue implications. Why settle for anything less than 100% availability for an enterprise storage platform?<\/p>\n

Another element of business value is improving the efficiency of enterprise storage management. What do you think 60 percent more efficient upgrades of enterprise storage, a 50 percent drop in hardware and support costs, and 50 percent more efficient deployment of new, cyber-resilient enterprise storage systems will do to your bottom line?<\/p>\n

Additionally, by consolidating workloads onto a high-performance, scalable storage platform, you simplify storage management, not only for the technical benefits of easier management, but also the business value benefits of less time for IT staff to spend on day-to-day storage tasks. Your enterprise will also save on power, cooling, and floor space costs by consolidating storage arrays into a much smaller number, yet running all the same applications and workloads. Time is money \u2013 and the automation of today\u2019s enterprise storage saves time and resources for enterprises, translating into measurable value that the CEO and CFO will love.<\/p>\n

With the right enterprise storage platform, you can increase your enterprise\u2019s operational agility, eliminate bottlenecks, and improve application responsiveness, all in support of a wide range of workloads, including virtualization, databases, and customer-facing applications.<\/p>\n

Having faster backups \u2013 25 percent or higher \u2013 also contributes to business value because it ensures the continuity of business operations for revenue generation and cost avoidance, as well as minimizing the impact of backup on server, application, and workload performance. This is also a compelling reason to incorporate cyber storage resilience into your storage infrastructure. Standard data protection is not sufficient anymore. Next-generation data protection is now critical for enabling the fastest, cyber secure backups. This type of data protection includes new innovations, such as cyber detection and automated cyber protection built into an enterprise storage platform.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, you can have more storage per rack at a lower cost, so you can reinvest in other parts of your business. Innovations in enterprise storage have disrupted the outdated economics of legacy all-flash storage implementations.<\/p>\n

The level of power-efficiency also contributes to the overall value of the data infrastructure. When you adopt enterprise storage solutions that reduce energy usage, power-efficiency saves money and frees up resources to be spent on other strategic initiatives, such as an AI data center. By upgrading to a next-generation enterprise storage platform, you can transfer the power that a legacy storage system was using to the area where you need it most, such as AI, creating new business value from what AI will deliver to augment the business and empower the organization to compete in a changing world. Connecting to an existing global AI-ready data infrastructure is a business-enabler, and enterprise storage is a critical part of unlocking its full potential.<\/p>\n

Last, but not least, enterprise storage generates business value by being a lever for adding additional gross revenue to an enterprise. With the intelligence of storage systems available today, you can track how the storage availability, capacity, and performance help drive revenue, whether you\u2019re an enterprise or a service provider, such as a managed service provider or a cloud service provider.<\/p>\n

For a large organization, enterprise storage can be directly tied to millions of dollars in incremental revenue that you would not be able to capture without the right cyber-resilient enterprise storage platform that is designed to consolidate workloads, automate storage admin tasks, provide 100% availability, deliver power efficiency, and cost-effectively deliver high performance.<\/p>\n

Key Takeaway<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cost-effectiveness, business continuity, overall efficiency, and revenue optimization now determine how much business value you can decode and capture from enterprise storage.<\/p>\n

Independent validation studies have been conducted, backing up the insights I have shared in this article. Here\u2019s an example: according to IDC research that Infinidat commissioned, the InfiniBox G4 platform delivers a payback in 8.7 months for enterprise storage with a three-year ROI of 140 percent and a 58 percent reduction in total cost from customers\u2019 previous storage vendor. To read the IDC White Paper about the business value of enterprise storage, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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