Virtualization and cloud computing will revolutionize data storage

Recently, data storage industry analysts, manufacturers and financiers gathered in the BD conference in Boston to present their views on the storage and IT industry for the coming year.

It sales growth is much smaller than it was 10 years ago, and users are trying to tap into their existing IT environment for every single point of efficiency potential. Virtualization and Cloud are one of the most interesting trends for attendees to meet the needs of users to increase their efficiency.

Akorri John Gavin says: "Virtualization used to target easy-to-achieve goals, such as server consolidation and cost management." Virtualization is now about how to simplify managing and managing performance issues in mission-critical applications. "

Data centers migrate from the constraints of physical devices to more comprehensive patterns. Now the data center has moved into the second phase-virtualizing applications such as Microsoft SharePoint, email, and CRM (Customer relationship Management). Some companies have even entered the third stage, multi-tiered virtualization, which combines server and storage virtualization into a large storage pool, and then allocates the capacity as needed.

But there are many IT organizations that are struggling in two environments: a physical environment that is not fully virtualized, and a new application that must be run on a virtual machine to achieve the purchase value.

Data centers inherit many tools from the physical environment to manage different issues, and now they must also address point solutions to manage virtualized environments. There are new tools on the market to manage the growing pool of storage and the growing layers that virtualization creates. Next year, IT administrators will see more comprehensive virtualization architecture management software. This software may be provided by a single vendor, or it may be open source. This type of software can monitor applications, perform accurate diagnoses, and remediate various problems in different heterogeneous environments.

Depending on the complexity and cost, different storage tiers have different control points. Organizations with remote offices may require centralized remote office backup and recovery capabilities, as well as cloud archiving capabilities. Cofio software Tony Cerqueira believes that end-to-end active information management is the subject of future business processes. The solution provided by the company can combine different operations and provide a single point of control for data.

According to Blade Network Technologies's Clive Surfleet, the focus of the virtualization world will still be on intelligent management and cost savings. New architecture tools, such as switch modules that can be matched to existing blade server/rack environments, can help extend existing bandwidth while reducing costs and laying the groundwork for a rack-level network architecture-a rack-level network architecture that can be configured and scaled out in a cost-effective virtualized data center, Web 2.0 environments and high-performance computing clusters.

Virtualization and cloud computing will revolutionize data storage