Today we continue discussing the best practice from storage engineering:

515) Most of the storage products have embraced APIs in one form or the other. Their usage for protocols with external agents, internal diagnostics and manageability are valuable as online tools and merit the same if not better appreciation than scripts and offline tools.

516) Storage products solve a piece of the puzzle. And customers don’t always have boilerplate problems. Consequently, there needs to be a bridging somewhere.

517) Customers also prefer ability to switch products and stacks. They are willing to try out new solutions but have become increasingly wary of tying to any one product or the increasing eencumbrances 

518) Customers have a genuine problem  with data being sticky. They cannot keep up with data transfers 

519) Customers want the expedient solution first but they are not willing to pay for re- architectures 

520) Customers need to evaluate the cost of even data transfer over the network. Their priority and severity is most important to them.