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Gartner® 2026 Strategic Roadmap for Storage

Infrastructure Platforms and Automation Power the Future of Storage

Enterprise storage is undergoing a profound transformation, driven by data proliferation, AI, cyberthreats, and infrastructure platform consumption services.

Heads of I&O must modernize data storage environments by integrating business-aligned SLA outcomes, cyberstorage, and autonomous storage.

Get the Gartner® 2026 Strategic Roadmap for Storage report and learn how to:

  • Shift to outcome-based SLAs that deliver maximum business value that aligns to productivity and asset management goals
  • Strengthen cyber resilience with advanced security capabilities to actively defend against sophisticated threats 
  • Embrace autonomous storage leveraging AI to streamline IT operations and achieve efficiencies

“Modern data infrastructure is fundamentally transforming IT, moving from fragmented  systems to unified, multiworkload, intelligent, and automated platforms.”

Gartner, 2026 Strategic Roadmap for Storage, Jeff Vogel, Julia Palmer, Chandra Mukhyala, 29 September 2025

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