The business value of Infinidat’s InfiniBox® family of enterprise storage solutions is a game changer, setting a new standard in business enablement and financial benefits, including payback period, ROI, cost reductions, operational efficiencies, cost avoidance, and revenue gains. By quantifying the benefits across IT and business operations, performance, and business impact, it demonstrates why Infinidat is the top choice for enterprise storage that delivers the most powerful business value in the market.

The InfiniBox G4 platform delivers a payback in an unprecedented 8.7 months for enterprise storage with a 3-year return on investment (ROI) of 140%. This is based on extensive customer interviews and analysis of large enterprises and Global Fortune 500 companies with average annual revenues of $49.6 billion. Our InfiniBox enterprise storage platform allows our enterprise and service provider customers to maintain profitability, reinvest in new innovation, and offer services at attractive rates in highly competitive markets. Business value has become an enormous differentiator in the enterprise storage market.

Infinidat’s customers achieve financial benefits worth an annual average of $7.5 million per enterprise ($199k per petabyte), with over 50% more efficiency in IT storage operations and approximately $9.2 million in additional gross revenue per year attributed to their use of InfiniBox solutions.

By using the InfiniBox G4 platform, enterprises are able to improve the efficiency of storage management, better support business operations, ensure storage system uptime, and achieve dramatic cost savings. Both the InfiniBox G4 and the InfiniBox™ SSA G4 run on Infinidat’s software-defined storage architecture operating system, InfuzeOS™. The unique InfuzeOS utilizes Neural Cache deep learning algorithms for unmatched real-world application performance, unparalleled cyber storage resilience with InfiniSafe®, and the comprehensive InfiniVerse® AIOps tools to significantly simplify storage administration. Native support for block, file and object storage protocols comes standard in each InfiniBox system.

For enterprise storage infrastructure, it’s critical to have capabilities to cost-effectively deliver high performance, consolidate workloads, provide extensive cyber storage security, and ensure reliability for business-critical applications and operations. The InfiniBox SSA G4 is the industry’s fastest all-flash storage array with latency as low as 35 microseconds to provide unrivaled application performance for an enterprise’s most demanding workloads. Simultaneously, the InfiniBox SSA G4 helps enterprises lower CAPEX and OPEX for all-flash storage, disrupting the outdated economics of legacy all-flash storage implementations.

Infinidat has earned an unequaled reputation for lowering the cost of enterprise storage for large enterprise deployments that increase efficiency, while enabling enterprise customers to accelerate performance, enhance flexibility, reduce complexity, leverage automation, and provide both quality and reliability from an enterprise community that has zero tolerance for downtime.

The InfiniBox G4 and InfiniBox SSA G4 platforms for enterprise primary storage deployments are not only the highest performing, the most cyber resilient, and the most reliable storage solutions in the industry, but are now also recognized for delivering a very compelling, positive ROI on enterprise storage. An InfiniBox G4 user in the financial services sector noted:

“The cost efficiency and ROI of InfiniBox have been strong, and it is highly scalable. This is a major benefit because we can purchase large systems with significant capacity. It has been extremely reliable with no outages, and the intuitive GUI makes it very easy to manage from an administrative standpoint.”

While one of Infinidat’s enterprise customers in the insurance sector echoed that sentiment:

“The ease of use and ease of management are major benefits, whether we are using the hybrid or all-flash systems, because the management experience is the same and far simpler than what we had with our previous solution. We have seen clear gains in cost savings, staff efficiency, agility, and the ability to run workloads on fewer arrays.”

Infinidat recently commissioned IDC, a leading provider of global IT research and advice, to write an IDC White Paper: “The Business Value of Infinidat InfiniBox Storage.”¹ The IDC 2026 study, on which this White Paper is based, included in-depth interviews of Infinidat enterprise customers in the U.S. and EMEA that use the InfiniBox SSA G4 all-flash storage or the InfiniBox G4 hybrid storage system and have knowledge about the benefits and costs of using them.

The interviewed enterprises have, on average, over 4,000 IT staff and manage 85 petabytes of data. Enterprise customers in the study included customers from financial services, education, technology, and telecommunications. IDC applied a specialized business value methodology to determine the business value of infrastructure spending.

Enterprise customers in the study reported a wide range of very significant benefits in using the InfiniBox G4 family to optimize their enterprise storage infrastructure. The research revealed the following about the impact of Infinidat’s solutions:

• 58% lower cost of enterprise storage operations than their previous storage
• 85% reduction in unplanned system downtime
• 51% annual cost reduction
• Over $1 million saved annually by avoiding gross revenue losses due to unplanned outages
• 64% more efficient upgrades of enterprise storage
• $9,181,200 total additional gross revenue per year due to their switch to Infinidat
• 51% drop in hardware and support costs
• 64% less time for IT staff to spend on day-to-day storage tasks
• 36% quicker load times with cost and revenue implications
• 27% faster back-ups
• 51% more efficient deployment of new storage systems

Several customers commented in the IDC White Paper on the strong business value and benefits of the InfiniBox G4 solution:

• “My company began exploring alternative storage solutions and chose Infinidat for its dense hybrid platform. It delivered far more storage per rack at a lower cost, and after testing it in our lab and production environment, we found it consistently performed well with no issues. When Infinidat later released the InfiniBox SSA, we moved to it for its exceptional speed, and it has since become our standard going forward for supporting our database applications.” − A user in the financial services sector
• “I would attribute roughly 10% of revenue to Infinidat, largely because the utilization and the balance between physical and effective capacity give us more flexibility. The cost of the arrays helps us maintain healthy margins, which means we make money on every deal and can reinvest to generate even more revenue.” − A user in the technology sector
• “My organization was looking to replace our backup storage solution for the storage we use to provide backups-as-a-service to customers, because our previous system we had wasn’t delivering what it needed to. We brought in an Infinidat PoC to test performance, and it not only validated what they claimed but significantly outperformed our legacy systems. It proved to be about 5x faster in our testing.” − A user in the technology sector
• “The ability to use Infinidat for multiple use cases has been a major advantage because, as a vendor with multi-tenant environments, we can connect multiple virtualization platforms without needing separate arrays, which makes scaling much easier. Our backup platforms, object storage, and other systems all run on Infinidat, and combined with the strong price per terabyte and solid service, those have been the biggest wins for us.” − A user in the technology sector

InfiniBox allows customers to expand usable capacity at a lower cost and reduce expenses related to hardware, licensing and data center overhead, yet without compromising performance, because of the high-density architecture and advanced data reduction capabilities of Infinidat’s platform.

All the while, InfiniBox increases an enterprise’s operational agility for IT teams, eliminates bottlenecks, and improves application responsiveness, in support of a wide range of workloads, including virtualization, databases, and customer-facing applications.

InfiniBox is the best of both worlds. One: advanced, high-performance enterprise storage at scale. Two: lower costs for enterprise storage. It all adds up to Infinidat’s customers gaining powerful enterprise storage capabilities and reaping substantial benefits with a groundbreaking ROI.

To download the IDC Business Value White Paper, click here.

¹ IDC BV White Paper, sponsored by Infinidat, The Business Value of Infinidat InfiniBox Storage, doc #US54234026-BVWP, March 2026

Eric Herzog is the Chief Marketing Officer at Infinidat, a Lenovo company. Prior to joining Infinidat, Herzog was CMO and VP of Global Storage Channels at IBM Storage Solutions. His executive leadership experience also includes: Senior Vice President of Product Management and Product Marketing for EMC’s Enterprise & Mid-range Systems Division, and CMO and Senior VP of Alliances for all-flash storage provider Violin Memory.