{"id":19841,"date":"2017-04-05T16:37:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T14:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/e3mag.com\/?p=19841"},"modified":"2022-05-01T08:19:57","modified_gmt":"2022-05-01T06:19:57","slug":"innovation-brake-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/innovation-brake-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovation brake block"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A worldwide study by Loudhouse on the topic of storage, commissioned by enterprise open source provider Suse, found that 74 percent of German companies are dissatisfied with the costs of their old systems.<\/p>\n<p>92 percent see significant additional costs ahead of them because the masses of data are growing. Today, seven percent of the entire IT budget is already spent on storage systems.<\/p><div id=\"great-1278931403\" class=\"great-fullsize-content-en\" style=\"margin-bottom: 20px;\"><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6yfv7eho3Gc\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Fullsize\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150.jpg\" alt=\"Fullsize\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-400x50.jpg 400w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-768x96.jpg 768w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-100x13.jpg 100w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-480x60.jpg 480w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-640x80.jpg 640w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-720x90.jpg 720w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-960x120.jpg 960w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-1168x146.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-18x2.jpg 18w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/banner_26_04_08_1200x150-600x75.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" width=\"1200\" height=\"150\"  style=\" max-width: 100%; height: auto;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><em>\"Inflexible storage systems put the brakes on digital transformation\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p>says Michael Jores, Regional Director Central Europe at Suse.<\/p>\n<p><em>\"Software Defined Storage makes companies more flexible and powerful - and thus fit for the requirements of the digital economy. Open source is the most sensible approach to making the new systems scalable and future-proof.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Reasons for the change<\/h3>\n<p>94 percent see digital transformation in their company hindered by unsuitable storage solutions. IT has been under increasing pressure to become more agile for years (73 percent), but organizations struggle to reconcile storage and agility.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/InnoBremsklotz-Infrastruktur-1703.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Innovation brake block\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19844\" src=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/InnoBremsklotz-Infrastruktur-1703.jpg\" alt=\"InnoBrake Block Infrastructure 1703\" width=\"1034\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/InnoBremsklotz-Infrastruktur-1703.jpg 1034w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/InnoBremsklotz-Infrastruktur-1703-768x485.jpg 768w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/InnoBremsklotz-Infrastruktur-1703-100x63.jpg 100w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/InnoBremsklotz-Infrastruktur-1703-480x303.jpg 480w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/InnoBremsklotz-Infrastruktur-1703-640x404.jpg 640w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/InnoBremsklotz-Infrastruktur-1703-720x455.jpg 720w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/InnoBremsklotz-Infrastruktur-1703-960x606.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1034px) 100vw, 1034px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Hybrid systems still dominate<\/h3>\n<p>63 percent of the companies surveyed already want to start their SDS strategy next year. The main reasons cited by German IT managers are the growing masses of data (61 percent), poor performance (65 percent) and the lack of scalability of their old systems (75 percent).<a href=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Innovationsbremsklotz-Infrastruktur-1704.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Innovation brake block\" class=\"wp-image-19845 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Innovationsbremsklotz-Infrastruktur-1704.jpg\" alt=\"Jores infrastructure 1704\" width=\"229\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Innovationsbremsklotz-Infrastruktur-1704.jpg 327w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Innovationsbremsklotz-Infrastruktur-1704-100x226.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To date, most companies rely on hybrid systems of disk and flash storage (71 percent), followed by disk-only storage (56 percent).<\/p>\n<h3>Open source solutions popular<\/h3>\n<p>Software-defined storage is already a reality in 12 percent of enterprises. This number will grow significantly in the coming year:<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all respondents (97 percent) find SDS interesting or very interesting, and 76 percent are convinced of the business case.<\/p>\n<p>More than 90 percent want to consider open source solutions for SDS deployment.<\/p>\n<p>IT managers see the greatest advantages in better performance and easier deployment. The challenge lies in integration with existing systems (58 percent) and defining management and control (scope of control) (48 percent).<\/p>\n<p>The above results relate to the statements made by German IT managers in the Loudhouse study.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/partners\/suse-linux-gmbh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Innovation brake block\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-11380 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CI-SUSE.jpg\" alt=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/partners\/suse-linux-gmbh\/\" width=\"1000\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CI-SUSE.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CI-SUSE-768x86.jpg 768w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CI-SUSE-100x11.jpg 100w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CI-SUSE-480x54.jpg 480w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CI-SUSE-640x72.jpg 640w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CI-SUSE-720x81.jpg 720w, https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/CI-SUSE-960x108.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional storage systems are unsuitable for the exponential data growth of digital transformation. They are also too expensive and too inflexible. 89 percent of German IT managers therefore want to switch, the vast majority (76 percent) to software-defined storage (SDS). <\/p>","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":19847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11023],"tags":[600,66],"coauthors":[19920],"class_list":["post-19841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-management","category-mag-1704","tag-digitale-transformation","tag-suse","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139.jpg",1000,421,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139.jpg",400,168,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139-768x323.jpg",768,323,true],"large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139.jpg",1000,421,false],"image-100":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139-100x42.jpg",100,42,true],"image-480":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139-480x202.jpg",480,202,true],"image-640":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139-640x269.jpg",640,269,true],"image-720":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139-720x303.jpg",720,303,true],"image-960":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139-960x404.jpg",960,404,true],"image-1168":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139.jpg",1000,421,false],"image-1440":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139.jpg",1000,421,false],"image-1920":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139.jpg",1000,421,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139.jpg",1000,421,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139.jpg",1000,421,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139.jpg",18,8,false],"bricks_large_16x9":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139.jpg",1000,421,false],"bricks_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139.jpg",1000,421,false],"bricks_large_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139.jpg",1000,421,false],"bricks_medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139.jpg",600,253,false],"bricks_medium_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139.jpg",600,253,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/shutterstock_519918139-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>F\u00fcr das exponentielle Datenwachstum der digitalen Transformation sind traditionelle Storage-Systeme ungeeignet. Au\u00dferdem sind sie zu teuer und zu unflexibel. 89 Prozent der deutschen IT-Verantwortlichen wollen deshalb wechseln, die gro\u00dfe Mehrheit (76 Prozent) zu Software Defined Storage (SDS). <\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"<a href=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/category\/it-management\/\" rel=\"category tag\">IT-Management<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/category\/mag-1704\/\" rel=\"category tag\">MAG 17-04<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"E-3 Magazine","url":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/author\/e-3-magazin\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19841"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=19841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}