 "HDS CTO Hu Yoshida's Top 10 Storage Trends For 2013")
Hitachi Data Systems Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Hu Yoshida, reveals his predictions for the top 10 IT industry trends for 2013. The explosive growth of data will continue to be the biggest concern for the IT industry in the coming year as Big Data begins to take centre stage, creating challenges and opportunities to the industry.
Trend 1: Instead of buying all their storage today and capitalising it over the next 4 to 5 years, organisations will buy what they need when they need it.
Trend 2: Replication multiplies data growth. A content store will help by reducing the need to back up and replicate unchanged data.
Trend 3: Flash controllers with advanced processors will improve the durability, performance, and capacity of flash making it more affordable than SSDs.
Trend 4: Hypervisors like VMware and applications such as VDI create demand for entry enterprise storage systems.
Trend 5: Standard file systems will need to be replaced by object-based file systems in order to meet the growing demand of unstructured data.
Trend 6: The use of content platforms for data archives and data sharing will accelerate as users try to correlate information from different applications.
Trend 7: Storage controllers will be equipped with advanced processors and hardware assist ASICs to address increasingly complex workloads and higher throughput.
Trend 8: Adoption of mobile devices increases productivity and innovation, but requires a secure, content-anywhere platform for data sharing.
Trend 9: Certified, pre-configured and pre-tested converged solutions are gaining traction but require a unified management and orchestration interface.
Trend 10: The cost of hardware (CAPEX) is trending upwards, becoming a greater share of total cost of ownership (TCO).