Enterprise storage infrastructure rarely receives attention until something goes wrong. Yet behind business applications, databases, analytics platforms, and digital services are complex systems responsible for storing, protecting, and making data available. As organizations accumulate larger volumes of information, modernizing these environments becomes an engineering challenge involving architecture, performance, connectivity, validation, and operational risk.

For Nikhil Kumar Aedla, a Principal Data Storage Engineer, enterprise storage modernization involves more than transferring information between platforms. His work supporting a multi-petabyte storage migration brings together infrastructure planning, storage area network (SAN) connectivity, automation, validation, and AI-assisted operational analysis.…