For many enterprises, IT deployments are in flux. Traditionally, data and workloads were stored in centralized enterprise datacenters, with some smaller deployments in regional facilities. Now, companies have data and workloads outside of core enterprise datacenters, in centralized public cloud sites, leased datacenters and at edge locations. This is often due to the amount of data being created in edge locations that requires local storage or compute, such as for latency reasons, or when customers or employees need access to data nearby and using a central datacenter or public cloud region would add latency and impact performance.
