Digital Transformation Drives New Fast Data and Big Data Storage Platform Requirements

Enterprise information technology (IT) is in the midst of a full-blown digital transformation

Published July 2019

IDC

As enterprises undergo digital transformation, they are moving toward a future that will have production business applications that fit into two broad classes: fast data and big data. Fast data workloads include mission-critical primary applications requiring consistently low latencies, while big data workloads are composed of applications that tend to be less latency sensitive and leverage much larger data set sizes. This white paper discusses the storage infrastructure requirements for fast data and big data platforms as well as the storage requirements around them that businesses will need to meet going forward.