Future ten major trends in the field of cloud computing

According to a report by foreign media on December 19, according to a survey conducted by InfoStor magazine experts in the storage industry, experts put forward the following 10 major forecasts for the storage industry in 2013:

Big data will become more important.

It is self-evident that unstructured data will continue to grow strongly. Therefore, we will continue to see new products with integrated analytics and unstructured data storage.

Molly Rector, chief marketing officer at Spectra Logic, said that as users need more performance options and alternative products to meet their specific big data needs, big data will be extended to distributed computing as Key markets.

Cloud backup technology matures

Gytis Barzdukas, Mozy's senior director of product management, believes that online data backup and access will be the most effective for the business.

The company understands cloud solutions and their understanding of the benefits of cloud solutions has created a hot market for online backup, said Bathschkass. With Active Directory integration and user group management, online backup is now an inevitable choice for large enterprises.

3. Hybrid backup will develop

Businesses already know a great deal about where cloud computing can most effectively deliver its benefits. As a result, 2013 will be a year for businesses to find a balance between finding the best of what functions and the features that best fulfill their commitments.

For big business, this will surely lead to a mixed environment. In this environment, cloud solutions are used by distributed employees and offices; and field-installed solutions are used for network backup.

Bathscale said that for smaller organizations, cloud solutions for data backup and access will be integrated with local storage solutions for archiving.

4. Better information mobility

Brian Gallagher, president of EMC Enterprise Storage, said the cloud environment represents a need for better relationships between enterprise IT data centers and cloud service providers.

Gallaher predicts that the concept of data and application mobility that allows organizations to migrate their virtual applications will be the norm. Enterprises will deploy dual-host data center configurations with high mobility and strict protection, allowing them to offload some workloads permanently or temporarily to the cloud (or offloaded to service providers).

Tiered storage will be more advanced

Hierarchical storage has been around for some time. However, in 2013, tiered storage will become more advanced.

Recto said that multi-level SSD storage will be widely used in high-performance data centers. As users have more media types to store data, highly integrated multi-tier file storage options will become increasingly important.

6. Larger capacity of the archive

Archiving of old content that needs to be stored for a long time will become even more important in 2013. According to the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), the global archive of electronic messages will reach 300,000 petabytes by 2015, an increase of file-based unstructured archival data.

ESG research shows that in addition to external hard drives, tapes remain an important storage medium for these extended data archives. Tape storage currently accounts for 38% of the total number of digital archives. From 2010 to 2015, tape storage will grow six-fold in terms of the number of digital archives.

7. Object storage archive

In 2013, object storage is expected to grow rapidly as more institutions handle unstructured data. The ability to upgrade an object storage system will play an important role, especially in archiving.

Derek Gascon, a technology product strategist at Dell Object Technology, said that archiving is based on an information management approach. The most suitable technique is object storage. Because it is used in the cloud, object storage itself is an emerging market that does not quickly attract users. Combining the value of big data with business intelligence, we'll see significant advances in object storage and advances in technology for archiving content in the coming years.

8. Scale-Out Network Attached Storage continues to rely on Big Data

Scale-out Network Attached Storage has always relied on big data to thrive. This trend will continue.

Bill Richter, president of storage at EMC Isilon, said that we've seen people move to proprietary private and open source software technologies to create private clouds based on scale-out of network attached storage. In 2013, this trend will continue to accelerate.

9. Tape storage will grow

Tape storage applications will continue to grow. This trend is expected to continue. Simon Watkins, director of marketing for tape products at HP Storage, said the global tape market (including tape drive / tape automation / tape media) was more than $ 1 billion in the first half of 2012. Worldwide LTO (Linear Tape Open Protocol) tape media capacity shipped in the first half of 2012 reached a record 10,000 pbo, up 12% YoY. Tape media shipments will continue to exceed shipments of external hard drive capacity. Tape market is still vibrant.

10. Phase change memory comes

For many years, many people hyped and cheered flash technology as "the next big thing." However, flash memory has now gained enough traction. Flash can be seen as part of the mainstream product.

So what's next? Zhaid Hussain, EMC's senior vice president and general manager of flash memory, said in 2013 we will see the transition to memory based architecture Make a lot of investments. With this type of non-volatile random access memory, the storage industry will begin to augment its existing offerings with a fast alternative storage option. The delay of this kind of product is even lower than the flashing memory technology, begin to approach DRAM memory speed.