Why Storage Is Crucial to Cloud Service Providers
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Why Storage Is Crucial to Cloud Service Providers
The lion's share of CSPs have virtualized more than 80% of their environments, and almost a third spend more than 10% of their revenue on storage. -
State of Virtualization
75% of CSPs have virtualized more than 80% of their applications. -
Lots of VMs
67% of CSPs have more than 1,000 virtual machines, and 84% have more than 250 VMs. -
Scaling Support
The scale of VMs is not limited to the largest CSPs; 38% of respondents with revenue below $50 million said their infrastructure needs to support more than 1,000 VMs. -
Top Services
The top services offered by CSPs are infrastructure as a service (84%), private cloud hosting (67%) and traditional managed services (48%). -
Hypervisor Environments
VMware vSphere (95%) dominates hypervisor environments followed by Microsoft Hyper-V (33%), OpenStack (31%), RHEV (11%) and Citrix XenServer (9%). -
OpenStack Traction
29% of CSPs plan to adopt OpenStack in less than one year. But 62% have no timeline for deployment or no current interest. -
Storage Spending
30% of CSPs spend more than 10% of their revenue on storage. Another 46% spend 5% to 10%, and 23% spend less than 5%. This is in comparison to typically 2% to 3% for enterprises. -
Top Buying Criteria
The top five criteria that CSPs use to evaluate storage are performance (86%), reliability/availability/serviceability (69%), cost (58%), manageability (41%) and scalability (38%). -
Pain Points
The three big pain points in CSP data centers are poor performance, lack of reliability and cost (both CapEx and OpEx). -
Cloud Hosting Wish List
The top features requested are cloud hosting features, such as multitenancy and data security (61%), followed by automation (46%), quality of service (41%), storage operations at VM-level (41%) and pay-as-you-go option/subscription pricing (39%). -
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A majority of cloud service providers (CSPs) have virtualized more than 80 percent of their environments, and nearly a third spend more than 10 percent of their revenue on storage, according to a survey 78 CSPs that was conducted by Tintri, a provider of VM-aware storage. This means selecting the right storage solution becomes an important decision in terms of cost, and how CSPs deliver differentiated services to customers in a very competitive cloud services market. One of the key ways CSPs can grow their businesses is through differentiated services, which garners higher margins and profits. Storage products for virtualized environments need to handle scale without performance degradation. However, CSPs cite storage performance as a top challenge. Another pain point—manageability—wasn't selected as one of the top three purchasing criteria for storage, but it should be, particularly for CSPs that have virtualized more than 50 percent of their data centers' workloads, according to Tintri. Poor virtual machine (VM) manageability affects storage performance and, thus, a CSP's bottom line. Here are 10 survey highlights to benchmark your company against other CSPs.
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