By Dave Wright
Last year, we saw the continued transformation of enterprise IT infrastructure towards the next-generation data centre model. Fuelled by advances in compute, network and storage virtualisation, businesses are seeing the advantages of scalable infrastructure that can respond to their needs.
Central to this has been a growing acknowledgment of the vital role that storage plays as the foundation of the next-generation data centre. With this in mind, what are the storage trends that we’re going to see in 2015? Read on to find out my predictions for this year.
Goodbye datacentre
Interestingly, most other trends are related to the much larger industry trend of the shift from siloed datacentre infrastructures to the cloud. This trend has been moving faster in many other areas than in storage, but storage is clearly in the crosshairs as people look to be able to deliver scalable, predictable capacity and performance in their virtual and cloud environments.
Death of the disk
Over the past couple of years, flash has clearly had a huge impact on the storage space, as it offers ten times the performance of disk at a fraction of the cost. The increasing use of flash will only continue this year and beyond until disk is …read more
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