In Hicham Abdessamad, Senior VP, Global Services, Hitachi Data Systems observes the trend moving to a consumption or utility based model to manage the storage efficiently.
Hitachis Abdessamad spots four major trends that will draw IT managers attention:
a) Converged Platform is paving a big way towards bringing various aspects of cost of storage, cost of going to market, best of breed and scalability factors under one umbrella, resulting in easy management of storage.
b) Converged protocols is another trend in storage which will rope in file, block, structured and unstructured storage products under one roof to enable users to manage heterogeneous storage devices efficiently.
c) Market consumption is considered to be a disruptive trend, a utility based service model. IT managers will adopt a storage consumption model which will be based on the consumption pattern of the user and pay as you use model.
d) Storage economics which delves into working on the capabilities that can help enhance storage utilisation
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