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Kathleen Martin
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The storage management function has shifted heavily of late. Instead of managing internal systems, capacity, and arrays, it has morphed into a hybrid function. Storage managers now must span between on-premises storage and cloud storage. Not only that, they must be able to move data around from cloud to cloud.
Here are some of the top tips to keep you ahead of the trends related to the storage management job market:
1. Embrace All Storage
Storage managers are being forced to embrace the entirety of the enterprise storage universe wherever it may lie. Increasingly their leaders are asking them to generate both deeper and more abundant information on their organizations’ data estates. As data is increasingly sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, dozens of software-as-a-service SaaS applications, multiple cloud services, and hundreds, if not more, of employee endpoints, IT leaders are recognizing they do not now have a full understanding of their organization’s data landscape.
“Storage management professionals who can provide these leaders with this understanding will enable their organizations to implement stronger security postures, improve data privacy and other types of risk management, and enhance their organization’s cloud storage and other resource utilization,” said Don Foster, global VP of sales engineering at CommVault.
“They will also pave the way for strategic digital transformation projects that analyze their organization’s data for insights on how to increase customer engagement, streamline their supply chains, automate business processes, and improve other business outcomes.”
The good news is that data management tools, including new data management-as-a-service (DMaaS) applications, are making it possible for storage professionals to achieve a clear understanding of their data estate, despite expanding data sprawl. Those with the knowledge and skills required to use these tools to provide visibility on their organizations’ continuously evolving and growing data estates will find themselves at the center of their organizations’ digital transformation and modernization initiatives.
2. Forward Digital Transformation
Rather than sticking rigidly to old ways, a better approach is to align with strategic initiatives. A big one currently is digital transformation. Anyone engaged in it needs all the help they can get on the storage management and integration side. After all, exponential data growth combined with today’s work-from-anywhere paradigm and the rampant ransomware threat have driven increasing challenges as well as an ever-increasing demand for storage management professionals.
In fact, storage management has been experiencing a progression from the back office to the front and garnering more and more face time with not just the CIO, but the entire C-suite. This is because the C-suite now recognizes that the many challenges being faced are not just IT issues, but can have a very direct impact on the business and are tied into digital transformation.
Continue reading: https://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/management/data-storage-management-job-trends/
Here are some of the top tips to keep you ahead of the trends related to the storage management job market:
1. Embrace All Storage
Storage managers are being forced to embrace the entirety of the enterprise storage universe wherever it may lie. Increasingly their leaders are asking them to generate both deeper and more abundant information on their organizations’ data estates. As data is increasingly sprawled across on-premises infrastructure, dozens of software-as-a-service SaaS applications, multiple cloud services, and hundreds, if not more, of employee endpoints, IT leaders are recognizing they do not now have a full understanding of their organization’s data landscape.
“Storage management professionals who can provide these leaders with this understanding will enable their organizations to implement stronger security postures, improve data privacy and other types of risk management, and enhance their organization’s cloud storage and other resource utilization,” said Don Foster, global VP of sales engineering at CommVault.
“They will also pave the way for strategic digital transformation projects that analyze their organization’s data for insights on how to increase customer engagement, streamline their supply chains, automate business processes, and improve other business outcomes.”
The good news is that data management tools, including new data management-as-a-service (DMaaS) applications, are making it possible for storage professionals to achieve a clear understanding of their data estate, despite expanding data sprawl. Those with the knowledge and skills required to use these tools to provide visibility on their organizations’ continuously evolving and growing data estates will find themselves at the center of their organizations’ digital transformation and modernization initiatives.
2. Forward Digital Transformation
Rather than sticking rigidly to old ways, a better approach is to align with strategic initiatives. A big one currently is digital transformation. Anyone engaged in it needs all the help they can get on the storage management and integration side. After all, exponential data growth combined with today’s work-from-anywhere paradigm and the rampant ransomware threat have driven increasing challenges as well as an ever-increasing demand for storage management professionals.
In fact, storage management has been experiencing a progression from the back office to the front and garnering more and more face time with not just the CIO, but the entire C-suite. This is because the C-suite now recognizes that the many challenges being faced are not just IT issues, but can have a very direct impact on the business and are tied into digital transformation.
Continue reading: https://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/management/data-storage-management-job-trends/
