This guide focuses on selecting storage for database and application workloads that require long-term scalability, predictable performance, and non-disruptive modernization. It highlights upgradeable architectures with hot-swappable controllers, backward-compatible flash, and seamless consolidation onto denser media. It stresses the importance of proven non-disruptive upgrades, flexible ownership programs, and planning tools that model workloads, track performance, and predict capacity. The guide also stresses integrated monitoring, AIOps, and data-movement capabilities that streamline migrations and reduce complexity. It concludes with RFP criteria addressing upgrades, workload planning, data protection, migrations, and performance insights across hybrid and multicloud environments.

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