How Smart Storage Design Helps Enterprises Thrive
TechTarget, Tuesday, August 19th, 2025
Smart tiering strategies help enterprises navigate NAND shortages and build resilient storage systems.
With NAND prices climbing 246% year over year, enterprises face supply pressures requiring structural solutions rather than procurement fixes.
Effective storage design matches data to appropriate tiers, using flash for active workloads, disk for warm data, and object storage for archives, since roughly 80% of primary storage data becomes cold within two years.
Organizations that implemented intelligent tiering before the crisis gained immediate cost savings, while those treating storage as a single-tier problem face constrained choices. Building flexibility across file, block, and object storage, including hybrid and cloud options, creates resilience against supply disruption and future AI demand.