2010 Storage Predictions
Despite technologies designed to increase storage efficiency, enterprise data continues to expand at more than 40% per year.
Enhanced performance requirements, coupled with the need to reduce power and capacity costs, will drive the creation of new storage technologies and services.
New Technologies and Service Delivery Models Will Transform the Storage Markets
by John Monroe, Pushan Rinnen, Sheila Childs, Adam W. Couture, Valdis Filks, and Stanley Zaffos
Overview
Gartner's storage research community has developed a set of key predictions for 2010 and beyond. Vendors, users and investors in storage technologies should consider these forward-looking strategic planning assumptions when making investments, designing systems, allocating resources, and selecting products and services.
Key Findings
Evolving needs will inspire new designs based on enhancements of older technologies (such as solid-state drives and object-based storage). The business dynamics for moving archived data to a low-cost management model are clear and will create new opportunities for storage service providers. Partially because deduplication technologies are primarily configured in network-attached storage (NAS) systems, storage area network (SAN) infrastructures are growing more slowly than NAS infrastructures.
Recommendations
In 2011 and beyond, users should have increasing confidence in the enterprise solid-state disk (SSD) solutions offered by a variety of vendors.
CIOs should start evaluating and plan to use the new-generation object-based storage to manage unstructured data in 2010 within their private cloud.
IT personnel responsible for enterprise storage architectures must quantify the potential savings of primary storage deduplication and the operational impacts of changing the ratio of NAS to SAN storage when refreshing their infrastructure.
Organizations must evaluate the cost models associated with on-premises archiving solutions versus cloud-based solutions in the context of their data preservation and access requirements.
Table of Contents
Analysis
1.0 What You Need to Know
2.0 Strategic Planning Assumptions
3.0 A Look Back
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Enhanced performance requirements, coupled with the need to reduce power and capacity costs, will drive the creation of new storage technologies and services.
New Technologies and Service Delivery Models Will Transform the Storage Markets
by John Monroe, Pushan Rinnen, Sheila Childs, Adam W. Couture, Valdis Filks, and Stanley Zaffos
Overview
Gartner's storage research community has developed a set of key predictions for 2010 and beyond. Vendors, users and investors in storage technologies should consider these forward-looking strategic planning assumptions when making investments, designing systems, allocating resources, and selecting products and services.
Key Findings
Evolving needs will inspire new designs based on enhancements of older technologies (such as solid-state drives and object-based storage). The business dynamics for moving archived data to a low-cost management model are clear and will create new opportunities for storage service providers. Partially because deduplication technologies are primarily configured in network-attached storage (NAS) systems, storage area network (SAN) infrastructures are growing more slowly than NAS infrastructures.
Recommendations
In 2011 and beyond, users should have increasing confidence in the enterprise solid-state disk (SSD) solutions offered by a variety of vendors.
CIOs should start evaluating and plan to use the new-generation object-based storage to manage unstructured data in 2010 within their private cloud.
IT personnel responsible for enterprise storage architectures must quantify the potential savings of primary storage deduplication and the operational impacts of changing the ratio of NAS to SAN storage when refreshing their infrastructure.
Organizations must evaluate the cost models associated with on-premises archiving solutions versus cloud-based solutions in the context of their data preservation and access requirements.
Table of Contents
Analysis
1.0 What You Need to Know
2.0 Strategic Planning Assumptions
3.0 A Look Back
Note: this article can be found in it's entirety by clicking here.
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