{"id":5482,"date":"2015-06-30T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=5482"},"modified":"2015-05-29T02:51:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T10:51:08","slug":"software-defined-storage-cloud-and-virtualization-spending-trump-big-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/software-defined-storage-cloud-and-virtualization-spending-trump-big-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Defined Storage: Cloud and Virtualization Spending Trump Big Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite significant hype, very little funding is being set aside for Big Data, Object Storage and OpenStack by businesses, <a title=\"Datacore survey on SDS\" href=\"http:\/\/www.datacore.com\/sds2015\" target=\"_blank\">according to a recent survey by Datacore<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; <a title=\"2015 State of Software Defined Storage\" href=\"http:\/\/datacore.com\/sf-docs\/default-source\/whitepapers\/english\/the-state-of-sds-2015-survey.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">2015 The State of Software-Defined Storage<\/a>. \u00a0Instead, businesses are funding initiatives like virtualization, private cloud and software-defined storage (<a title=\"Software Defined Storage\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Software-defined_storage\" target=\"_blank\">SDS<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The Datacore report finds that when considering SDS, the two biggest issues that IT administrators worry about are the effects of virtualized environments on system downtime and application performance.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the survey include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>52 percent of businesses say that they chose storage virtualization technologies because it allows them to add more storage without disruption<\/li>\n<li>53 percent say that less than 10 percent of their storage capacity is flash-based<\/li>\n<li>60 percent say that virtualized servers noticeably degrade performance<\/li>\n<li>61 percent say that Data centers and IT have become so complex that some amount of automation is needed when managing them<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Deni Connor -- selection of some articles\" href=\"http:\/\/www.itworldcanada.com\/author\/deniconnor\" target=\"_blank\">Deni Connor<\/a>, founding analyst at <a title=\"SGS-Now bios\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ssg-now.com\/who-we-are\/\" target=\"_blank\">SSG-NOW<\/a>, commented on the Datacore survey, saying<a title=\"Datacore survey on SDS comments\" href=\"http:\/\/www.datacore.com\/blog\/posts\/2015\/05\/12\/now-available-datacore-s-fifth-annual-state-of-software-defined-storage-survey\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0that\u00a0<\/a>&#8220;two major surprises jump out at you from the findings. \u00a0The absence of near term spending on Big Data and Object Storage among the majority of respondents, and the relatively small penetration of flash across these 477 organizations. 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