ESG undertook a research study of 152 IT decision makers in North America (US and Canada), either within the IT department or embedded in a line-of-business group knowledgeable about their organization’s cloud and/or data storage environments. ESG found several themes running through the study:

• Modern, unstructured data environments are distributed, and the cloud plays a central role in meeting the demands of the business of these unstructured data environments.
• Regardless of the benefits the cloud may offer, the cloud adds risk and complexity to IT, which, if not addressed, can lead to cost overruns or workloads returning to on-premises data centers (i.e., repatriation).
• IT complexity due to cloud use can be mitigated with advanced hybrid cloud unstructured storage solutions that can help minimize, or eliminate, the impact of refactoring applications.

In this report, learn about the insights gained in this study on the use of file data in a modern organization.