Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) analysts Mark Peters and Monya Keane explore how Maxta's innovative software-defined storage platform addresses the fundamental mismatch between traditional storage architectures and modern virtualized environments. The report highlights how storage complexity has become a major pain point in virtual data centers.
Key Highlights
- Traditional storage arrays were designed for physical servers, creating complexity when mapped to virtual machines
- 43% of organizations cite capital cost of storage infrastructure as a significant virtualization challenge
- Maxta Storage Platform eliminates external storage arrays by providing enterprise storage capabilities at the VM level
- The solution includes VM-level snapshots, cloning, replication, deduplication and compression without traditional storage complexity