Analyzing big data is critical for enterprises to serve customers and improve overall business performance. Historically, data access, processing, and analysis were most important for reporting on business performance, followed by customer insights and business intelligence, but our study revealed that customer insights will replace business performance as the top priority for data processing and analysis. This supports Forrester's overarching assertion that enterprises have entered the age of the customer -- …

Modern, all-flash storage satisfies three historically conflicting and unobtainable storage requirements: high-performance, low-cost and reliability. As a result, progressive IT departments have seen the value of solid-state storage and are increasingly implementing all-solid-state data centers. This research note describes the positive impact of solid-state storage on operational costs as well as the benefits for certain workloads such as big data and analytics. It also provides top recommendations for …