7 Storage Trends to Impact the IT Industry in 2013

Symantec predicts seven storage trends that would influence the IT users in 2013

Software defined data center becomes the new
buzzword
- Software defined data centers will take on cloud computing
to become the new industry buzz word.
Software defined storage will have significant
-
impact on cloud, appliances and SSDs/Flash storage
implementations.
- Commodity hardware, appliances and cloud will become
increasing reliant on smart software that will define and
drive the future of data center computing.
-
Industry adopts flash storage, begins to replace tier one
storage
- There will be an increase in solid state/flash storage
adoption.
- Flash Storage will be trialed at nearly every fortune 1000
enterprise within the year, and will begin to replace tier-one
storage.
-
The target dedupe appliance market will be disrupted
& replaced by integrated backup appliances
- Deduplication at the storage target will increasingly be
replaced by de-duplication closer to the source.
- Purpose built de-duplication appliances will be replaced
with integrated backup appliances that combine source
and target de-duplication, backup software, replication,
snapshots, security and cloud integration in a single
appliance.
Big Data investments stay small but risks increase
dramatically
- Big Data projects will increase dramatically, but the
monetary investments by brand name vendors will stay
small. New high price infrastructures will be prohibitive
so organizations will turn to more targeted do-it-yourself,
project-based investments using open source Hadoop.
- The risks associated with Big Data will significantly
increase, especially when it is inefficiently stored
and managed. New information governance best practices
will arise to help keep data sets from getting too large and
burdensome while ensuring data is accessible, protected,
and properly retained.
Cloud outages become more prevalent even though
cloud is increasingly used to protect information
- Companies of all sizes will need to adopt better cloud
management tools to protect their data because cloud
outage problems will get worse before they get better.
- There will be a significant increase of cloud outages in
2013, resulting in millions of dollars lost.
- Outages will get worse and have a more significant impact
on the industry, yet companies will continue to pour
resources into cloud offerings.
- Infrastructures that have scaled quickly with hand-written
code and that utilize inefficient shared resources will
result in major outages and some black eyes for the cloud
computing market.
- However, backup and disaster recovery appliances and
cloud service providers will begin to innovate secure and
efficient recovery of data and applications.
Hypervisor market share will dramatically change with
greater diversity of virtualization solutions.
- The market share of hypervisor vendors will begin to
balance out between the largest vendors, with each taking
close to an equal market share as the market continues to
grow exponentially.
- Organizations of all sizes will evaluate and adopt multiple
hypervisors into their virtualization and computing
environments.
- This hypervisor diversity will cause specific hypervisor
point tools to be ripped out and replaced by platforms
with more capabilities that support multiple hypervisors,
physical, virtual, snapshot and cloud based infrastructures
for backup, recovery and management.
- As a result, more SMBs will become 100 percent
virtualized and using multiple hypervisors in both testing
and production environments.
-
Defensible deletion and predictive coding become
information governance mainstays
- Defensible deletion will emerge as the central approach
to overcoming the costs and legal risks associated with
managing out of control data proliferation.
Predictive coding will become main stream and overturn
traditional thinking that manual, linear document review is the
gold standard and meets legal hold requirement.

Software defined data center becomes the newbuzzword

- Software defined data centers will take on cloud computingto become the new industry buzz word.

- Software defined storage will have significantimpact on cloud, appliances and SSDs/Flash storageimplementations.

- Commodity hardware, appliances and cloud will becomeincreasing reliant on smart software that will define anddrive the future of data center computing.

Industry adopts flash storage, begins to replace tier onestorage

- There will be an increase in solid state/flash storageadoption.

- Flash Storage will be trialed at nearly every fortune 1000enterprise within the year, and will begin to replace tier-onestorage.

The target dedupe appliance market will be disrupted& replaced by integrated backup appliances

- Deduplication at the storage target will increasingly bereplaced by de-duplication closer to the source.

- Purpose built de-duplication appliances will be replacedwith integrated backup appliances that combine sourceand target de-duplication, backup software, replication,snapshots, security and cloud integration in a singleappliance.

Big Data investments stay small but risks increasedramatically

- Big Data projects will increase dramatically, but themonetary investments by brand name vendors will staysmall. New high price infrastructures will be prohibitiveso organizations will turn to more targeted do-it-yourself,project-based investments using open source Hadoop.

- The risks associated with Big Data will significantlyincrease, especially when it is inefficiently storedand managed. New information governance best practiceswill arise to help keep data sets from getting too large andburdensome while ensuring data is accessible, protected,and properly retained.

Cloud outages become more prevalent even thoughcloud is increasingly used to protect information

- Companies of all sizes will need to adopt better cloudmanagement tools to protect their data because cloudoutage problems will get worse before they get better.

- There will be a significant increase of cloud outages in2013, resulting in millions of dollars lost.- Outages will get worse and have a more significant impacton the industry, yet companies will continue to pourresources into cloud offerings.

- Infrastructures that have scaled quickly with hand-writtencode and that utilize inefficient shared resources willresult in major outages and some black eyes for the cloudcomputing market.

- However, backup and disaster recovery appliances andcloud service providers will begin to innovate secure andefficient recovery of data and applications.

Hypervisor market share will dramatically change withgreater diversity of virtualization solutions.

- The market share of hypervisor vendors will begin tobalance out between the largest vendors, with each takingclose to an equal market share as the market continues togrow exponentially.

- Organizations of all sizes will evaluate and adopt multiplehypervisors into their virtualization and computingenvironments.

- This hypervisor diversity will cause specific hypervisorpoint tools to be ripped out and replaced by platformswith more capabilities that support multiple hypervisors,physical, virtual, snapshot and cloud based infrastructuresfor backup, recovery and management.

- As a result, more SMBs will become 100 percentvirtualized and using multiple hypervisors in both testingand production environments.

Defensible deletion and predictive coding becomeinformation governance mainstays

- Defensible deletion will emerge as the central approachto overcoming the costs and legal risks associated withmanaging out of control data proliferation.

- Predictive coding will become main stream and overturntraditional thinking that manual, linear document review is thegold standard and meets legal hold requirement.

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