2014, the most noteworthy storage technologies

According to foreign media reports, there are many technologies to track in the data storage area and there are many publicity related to data storage technologies. So, what storage technologies are the most noteworthy in 2014?

1. Enterprise Public Cloud It goes without saying that in 2014 we will see more important mission applications becoming virtualized applications. This will make people accept the public cloud more and more. Enterprises will be more comfortable using secure and large-scale public cloud resources provided by large providers such as Amazon Web Services and Rackspace. Not only does this not add to the burden on the corporate network, but enterprises are turning to public clouds when using large applications like Sharepoint, Oracle or SAP. Commbault senior product marketing director Robbie Wright said private cloud growth could come in 2014 from industries such as finance and healthcare. There are important compliance or security issues in these industries, and it is important to know exactly where the data hosted is mission critical.

2. Mixed IT architecture However, this does not mean that all use public cloud. While more users are willing to use cloud-based services, that does not mean they will abandon the traditional IT infrastructure. Due to performance requirements, some applications historically are better suited for using traditional IT infrastructures. These applications are now being integrated into the cloud. However, other applications remain within the organization. What is evolving is a hybrid IT architecture. In this architecture, the public cloud and the on-premises deployment will run in parallel. Lynn LeBlanc, co-founder and CEO of HotLink, said 2014 will be a hybrid IT year with low costs and full protection. Large and small businesses will combine data and virtual machine backup and replication with disaster recovery and business continuity in the public cloud.

James Valdez, senior director of cloud computing for SunGard Availability Services, a provider of solid state disk disaster recovery services, sees SSDs as notable technologies of the year 2014. He said the advent of SSDs has significantly increased the performance associated with workload. Due to the success of SSDs, we expect more vendors will apply SSD technology to meet their business needs. Valdez's view is that solid state drives will continue to erode traditional hard drive architectures and become mainstream. He pointed out that SSDs enable organizations to make better use of their processors, reducing their computational costs.

4. Server-Side Flash Per Aixon vice president of marketing Jeff Aaron believes server-side flash is an emerging technology for improving storage performance by reducing the input-per-second performance next to the application delay. The challenge here is that server-side flash memory has not been used across mainframes. In any virtual data center where virtual machines migrate from one device to another, server-side flash is not hardware-based. Allen said this creates an opportunity for flash virtualization hypervisors. This hypervisor can aggregate server-side flash across multiple hosts and create a virtual pool of resources to speed up the reading and writing of main memory. Just as the original hypervisor radically changed the way applications use processors and memory, Flash hypervisors will revolutionize storage by optimizing how applications use flash.

5. Virtual Storage Area Network Storage is one of the last parts of the virtualization in the data center. We've heard of virtualized storage. However, most vendors are actually talking about virtual hard drives. Storage LAN how? The current storage area network is still tightly integrated with the physical hardware and therefore can not be part of a massive cloud infrastructure. Stuart Berman, chief executive of Jeda Networks, said a new generation of virtualized computer centers that support virtualized storage area networks will start to emerge. Virtualization is because it no longer depends on the specific hardware, but on the existing virtualization infrastructure.

6. "Software Defined" Will Be Put Into Practice Berman acknowledged that end-users are not primarily interested in any outreach around software-defined storage and software-defined data centers. He predicts that as more vendors declare themselves software-defined in 2014, many will continue to be uninterested. Nevertheless, he believes that in 2014, the software definition will no longer be the latest marketing slogan. Companies that offer software-defined value at a lower cost of equipment and a truly virtualized infrastructure will emerge from noises. In the final assessment, the end user is concerned with what the product can do for their organization, not what the product is called.

7. Software Defined Everything 2013 is a year of software-defined marketing hype. Software definitions have spread to software-defined networks, software-defined storage and software-defined data centers. 2014 will be a software-defined year. Herb Hogue, senior vice president of professional services and engineering at En Pointe Technologies, said 2014 will be a year for all products, including software-defined networking, software-defined storage and software-defined data centers. Software Intelligence will automate the data center rather than automate infrastructure components. The main players in this area are VMware, HP and Cisco. We are at the beginning of this evolution.
8. Everett Dolgner, director of product management at software maker Silver Peak, said that while many startups have released software-defined storage products in the past year, However, we want to focus on the leading companies in this area. EMC introduced ViPR software-defined storage products; NetApp introduced OnTAP EDGE virtual arrays. While these products are completely different, these products validate the rationale for the software-defined storage market. Dolna said some vendors will sell their own integrated solution that integrates servers, storage and processors in one device, while others will sell software layers that run on any platform. Software-defined storage will change the way storage services are delivered, and capacity will become a commodity.

Pricing-backed data-backed pricing is another boring old topic that has drawn no attention. However, everyone is using backup and backup is a growing area. The latest development is based on data recovery pricing. This is one way to address the data growth in backup. There, the amount of data to be protected becomes irrelevant. Backup service providers are increasingly adopting this pricing model and allow customers to pay less when it comes to recovering less data. Tracy Staniland, Asigra's vice president of corporate marketing, said agencies can choose between pricing and pricing based on how much data to recover in a 12-month period. In this way, the cost of data recovery will never exceed 25% of the organization's data.

10. Storage Mobility CommVault Senior Product Marketing Director Robbie Wright believes that the technology to achieve storage mobility is a noteworthy technology in 2014. As employees are increasingly working remotely, he said, IT organizations continue to struggle with managing and securely accessing data created by employees on mobile devices, while still meeting corporate compliance mandates . This will drive technological innovation: Synchronization will ensure that employees have access to up-to-date documents, regardless of the computer or device they are on; automatic saving of edited data, policies and rules to automatically migrate data to savings Cost of storage.