{"id":473,"date":"2013-06-05T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.technet.microsoft.com\/windowsserver\/2013\/06\/05\/storage-transformation\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T12:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T19:43:33","slug":"storage-transformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-server\/blog\/2013\/06\/05\/storage-transformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Storage Transformation"},"content":{"rendered":"
Organizations face many challenges when it comes to storage.\u00a0 Data volumes are exploding, increasing the cost of storage and the headaches of storage management.\u00a0 The rise of Big Data analytics means more data is being collected and mined than ever before \u2013 90% of the world\u2019s data has been created in the last two years.\u00a0 Enterprise data is expanding at 20% per year or more.<\/p>\n
But changes in the technologies and products that compose storage solutions are creating new opportunities.\u00a0 And the Microsoft strategy embraces these trends so customers can benefit from them today.<\/p>\n
First, the level of performance and reliability that storage based on industry-standard hardware and software can achieve in your datacenters is rapidly increasing. \u00a0Second, customers are moving data to the cloud to experience the flexibility, elasticity, and cost effectiveness the cloud offers.\u00a0 And third, recovery needs and the strengths of the cloud are beginning to come together in the form of data backup\/recovery and the orchestration of application recovery.<\/p>\n
Four years ago, starting with the release of Windows Server 2008 R2 and continued with the release of Windows Server 2012, Microsoft began a journey to fundamentally transform storage and deliver a new range of solutions for customers.\u00a0 Since then, we\u2019ve taken steps in each of these three areas.<\/p>\n
In the past, many customers purchased proprietary storage solutions for the performance and reliability they provide \u2013 but at a high cost.\u00a0 Changes to hardware, operating systems, and software are now making high performance, reliable storage possible \u2013 with industry standard hardware.<\/p>\n
Last year, Windows Server 2012 began delivering on our vision of storage transformation with virtualized file-based storage with Storage Spaces and scale-out file servers.\u00a0 At TechEd 2012 we presented a session on the improvements to our SMB protocol, and at MMS a few months ago a session on file storage strategies for private clouds.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re proud of the performance these offerings deliver.\u00a0 Windows Server file-based storage configurations can deliver 1,000,000 IOPs, and continue to provide uninterrupted service to workloads like Hyper-V and SQL Server, even through the loss of disks or a server.<\/p>\n
Everyone will move their data at their own pace, and often one workload at a time.\u00a0 A great candidate for you to consider is data whose usage decreases quickly over time as it ages.\u00a0 SharePoint deployments frequently illustrate this data pattern, as one example.<\/p>\n