Block Storage Market Scan Workshop
Stop choosing storage based on "gut feel" or legacy brand loyalty. Our Market Scan Workshop provides a structured, objective environment to evaluate the rapidly evolving 2026 block storage landscape. By leveraging the world-renowned Kepner-Tregoe (KT) Decision Analysis framework, we strip away vendor bias and internal politics to align your infrastructure with your actual business requirements. Whether you are navigating the shift to NVMe-over-Fabrics or integrating Cyber Resilience into your storage architectures, this workshop ensures you invest in the right platform for your needs—not just the one with the most "nice-to-have" features.
What to Expect
This interactive 6–8 hour workshop can be delivered as a single session or in modular tracks. Together we will:
Assess Your Environment & Goals
Review your current Block Storage architecture, performance challenges, security posture, and growth objectives.
Compare OEM Architectures
Evaluate how each vendor approaches Block Storage:
- Dell
- Everpure
- Hitachi
- HPE
- IBM
- NetApp
Evaluation Matrix
Objectively score vendors against weighted criteria such as:
- Management
- Design & Deploy
- Security
- Block Services
- Disaster Recovery
- Storage Features
- Customer specific needs
Goals & Objectives
- Accelerate Decision-Making: Save weeks of trial and comparison—focus only on the best-fit OEMs that match your weighted criteria.
- Bridge Teams for Alignment: Collaborate across storage practitioners, security, and IT operations to align priorities and ensure cross-functional buy-in.
- Leverage Expert Insight: Gain knowledge from experts, real-world lab testing, and a neutral, vendor-agnostic evaluation approach.
- Enable Strategic Planning: Use the results not only for selection, but also to inform deployment strategies, integration plans, and even procurement roadmaps.
Who Should Attend?
- Storage practitioners
- IT Infrastructure and Operations Leaders
- Security and Compliance Stakeholders
- Networking Stakeholders
- CIOs or Business Unit Leaders interested in infrastructure modernization
Benefits
Down-Select & Roadmap
Narrow the field to the top 2 OEMs best aligned to your needs and build a roadmap for next steps, such as Proof-of-Concepts, lab testing, or procurement.