Recent Research from Henry Baltazar

• Data sovereignty and egress charges reshape migration strategies – Highlights from VotE: Storage

  By Henry Baltazar July 23 2026 | Market Insight

  Data migration remains a critical operational function as organizations navigate hybrid and multicloud environments. Data sovereignty considerations and egress charges are emerging as powerful forces reshaping migration strategies, joining ongoing challenges related to security, large payloads and downtime. A new wave of regulatory and cost pressures is forcing organizations to rethink where data lives and how it moves.

  Applied Infrastructure and DevOps

• Survey Data Hub – Voice of the Enterprise: Storage, Data Migration 2026

  By Henry Baltazar July 23 2026 | Technology & Business Insight

  Voice of the Enterprise: Storage provides you with actionable data and insight to understand the key dynamics driving the information technology market.

  Combining industry-leading analysis with a proprietary global panel of IT decision-makers, Voice of the Enterprise: Storage, Data Migration 2026 tracks the disruption occurring in the market and exposes the major opportunities for enterprises, IT vendors, suppliers and investors.

  Two-part online surveys were conducted in May and June 2026. The main survey consists of ~250 respondents.

  Reports

  Data sovereignty and egress charges reshape migration strategies – Highlights from VotE: Storage (Spotlight)

  Data migration remains a critical operational function as organizations navigate hybrid and multicloud environments. Data sovereignty considerations and egress charges are emerging as powerful forces reshaping migration strategies, joining ongoing challenges related to security, large payloads and downtime. A new wave of regulatory and cost pressures is forcing organizations to rethink where data lives and how it moves.

  Data files

  Crosstabs (Excel tables | Download link in sidebar to the right) – Crosstabs of complete worldwide and regional survey results datasets, including key metrics and segmentation.

  Charts and Figures (PowerPoint charts | Navigate charts in sidebar to the left | Download link in sidebar to the right) – PowerPoint slide deck of complete top-line survey results in charts and figures.

  Applied Infrastructure and DevOps

• Scality launches ADI to bring autonomous operations to multi-tier object storage

  By Henry Baltazar July 24 2026 | Market Insight

  The company has launched a third platform that combines RING's scalability with ARTESCA's deployment simplicity, adding autonomous AI-powered operations and multi-tier storage across NVMe, HDD, tape, and cloud under a single namespace.

  Cloud & Managed Services Transformation Applied Infrastructure and DevOps

• Everpure adds data intelligence layer to push its cloud platform beyond storage

  By Henry Baltazar July 13 2026 | Market Insight

  At its Accelerate 2026 conference, the company introduced a semantic data intelligence layer — derived from the acquisition of 1touch in February — that it plans to integrate with its Enterprise Data Cloud platform, targeting chief information security officers and chief data officers alongside its traditional storage buyers.

  Cloud & Managed Services Transformation Applied Infrastructure and DevOps

• Security-related outages drive resiliency evolution

  By Henry Baltazar June 26 2026 | Technology & Business Insight

  Organizations continue to favor cloud-based data protection, with fewer than a third maintaining an on-premises-only strategy. With outages continuing to be common and costly, data protection offerings must improve recovery speed. Many respondents say recovery requires significant effort, highlighting the need for enhanced disaster recovery testing.

  Applied Infrastructure and DevOps

• Security threats persist, recovery remains a burden – Highlights from VotE: Storage

  By Henry Baltazar June 16 2026 | Market Insight

  Security incidents remain the top cause of outages, and nearly three-quarters of respondents still require moderate or significant effort to restore systems after a failure. Hybrid cloud continues to lead data protection deployments, and Microsoft 365 Copilot is the top software-as-a-service platform for backup. The study was fielded from March through April 2026.

  Applied Infrastructure and DevOps

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