Is Your Business Benefiting from a Modernised Storage Strategy? (iPlanet)

1. Does your organisation use an intelligent storage strategy for data management?

a. Yes, we have tiers of storage for different types of data with automatic movement of data to their appropriate tiers.

b. Somewhat. We do have different levels of storage but we are not fully automated in how we move data to different storage tiers.

c. No. We don’t have different types of storage for different data classes.

2. Which best describes your current approach to storage?

a. Almost entirely on-premise/in data centres.

b. Almost entirely cloud-based.

c. Mixed between cloud-based and on-premise.

3. How seamless is your organisation's storage strategy for managing data across on-prem and cloud environments?

a. Very seamless: We can manage data across these environments with minimal disruption.

b. Somewhat seamless: We can manage data across these environments, but some manual intervention is required.

c. Not seamless: We cannot manage data across these environments without significant manual intervention and disruption.

d. We do not store data in the cloud: We only store data on-premise and do not utilise cloud storage.

4. How cyber resilient is your organisation's storage infrastructure?

a. Highly resilient: Our storage has built-in security capability from our supplier.

b. Moderately resilient: Our storage doesn’t have built-in security features but we have good storage-specific third-party protections.

c. Not resilient: Our storage infrastructure lacks sufficient measures to protect against cyber attacks.

5. How much data protection is built into your storage?

a. Our storage has built-in data protection functions like replication, shadow copies and backup. It also has hardware redundancy for high availability.

b. Our storage has built-in data protection functions like replication, shadow copies and backup.

c. We don’t have built-in technology but we have third-party data protection solutions in use at the storage level.

d. We only have standard backup protection in place.

6. Does your organisation's storage infrastructure has advanced features or services, such as predictive analytics, performance monitoring, innovative data reduction and AI, to enhance efficiency and performance?

a. Yes, our storage infrastructure has advanced features and efficiency-enhancing services.

b. Somewhat. Our storage infrastructure has some advanced features and services, but additional modernisation may be needed to fully optimise efficiency and performance.

c. No, our storage infrastructure lacks advanced features and services.

7. How scalable is your current storage?

a. Very scalable. We can expand processing and capacity easily and flexibly with no need for a full-scale upgrade.

b. Somewhat limited. Once we reach maximum disk capacity, we would need to replace our existing storage array.

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