Experts predict 10 trends in storage area in 2013

December 19 News, according to foreign media reports, according to Infostor Journal of Storage industry experts in the survey, experts proposed 2013 storage Industry 10 forecasts are as follows:

1. Large data will become more important

It goes without saying that unstructured data will continue to grow strongly. As a result, we will continue to see new products for integrated analysis and unstructured data storage.

Spectra Logic chief Marketing Officer Morie Rector (Molly rector) said that as users needed more performance choices and sought alternative products to meet their specific large data requirements, large data would be extended to markets focused on distributed computing.

2. Cloud Backup Technology Matures

Mozy Company Senior Product Management Director Jitis Basse (Gytis Barzdukas) believes that online data backup and access will reach the most effective point of the enterprise.

Business acceptance of cloud solutions and understanding of the benefits of cloud Solutions has created a popular market for online backup, says Cass. The use of Active Directory Integration and user group management functions, online backup is now a necessary choice for large enterprises.

3. Hybrid backup will develop

Companies are already well aware of where cloud computing can be most effective in achieving its benefits. As a result, 2013 will be a year for businesses to find a balance, that is, to find out what functions are best served and which features are most capable of achieving their commitments.

For large enterprises, this will certainly lead to a mixed environment. In this environment, cloud solutions are used for dispersed employees and offices, and on-site installed solutions are used for network backups.

For small organizations, the cloud solution for data backup and access will combine with local storage solutions for archiving, says Cass.

4. Better Information mobility

"The expansion of the cloud environment means a better relationship between the enterprise IT data center and the cloud service provider," said Brian Gallagher, Gallagher President of EMC Enterprise storage.

Gallagher predicts that the notion that data and application mobility can allow institutions to migrate their virtual applications will become the norm. The enterprise deploys a dual-host data center configuration with highly mobile and stringent protection, allowing them to permanently or temporarily unload some of their work into the cloud (or unload to a service provider).

5. Tiered storage will be more advanced

Tiered storage has been occurring for some time. However, in the 2013, tiered storage will become more advanced.

Multi-tiered solid-state hard disk storage will be widely used in high-performance data centers, Recto said. As users have more media types for storing data, a high level of integration of multi-tier file storage choices will become increasingly important.

6. Larger-capacity archiving

Archiving for old content that requires long-term preservation will become more important in 2013. According to the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), by 2015, the global archived electronic information capacity will reach 300,000 Pb (Petabyte, petajoules bytes), the increase of file-based unstructured archive data is the main reason.

ESG research shows that, in addition to external hard drives, tape is still 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 6 times times the number of digital archives.

7. Object Storage Archive

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

"Archiving is based on an information management approach," said Derek Gascon, a Dell Object technology product strategist Dreck Gascon. The most appropriate technology is object storage. Because it is used in the cloud, object storage itself is a newly emerging market that does not quickly attract users. By combining the value of large data with business intelligence, we will see important advances in object storage and technological advances in the processing of archived content over the next few years.

8. Scale-out Network Attached storage continues to rely on large data development

Scale-out (scale-out) network attached storage has been thriving on large data. This trend will continue.

' We've seen people switch to using proprietary and open source software technology to create private clouds based on scale-out network-attached storage, ' said Bill Richter, the EMC Isilon Storage Division chief. This trend will continue to accelerate in 2013.

9. Tape Storage will grow

The application of tape storage will continue to grow. This trend is expected to continue. Simon Watkins, head of global tape product marketing at HP's storage division, said the global tape market (including tape drive/tape Simon Wotkins/tape media) was more than 1 billion dollars in the first half of 2012. Global LTO (Linear Tape open protocol) tape media capacity shipments reached a record 10,000 PB in the first half of 2012, up 12% per cent year-on-year. Tape media shipments will continue to exceed the volume of external hard drive shipments. The tape market is still vibrant.

10. Phase Change Memory Arrival

For years, many people have advertised and cheered flash technology as "the next big thing". But Flash is now gaining enough traction. Flash memory can be seen as part of the mainstream product.

So, what's the next big thing? What is the phase change memory? "In 2013, we will see a lot of investment in architecture based on phase-change memory," said Zasid Hussein Zahid Hussain, EMC Senior Vice president and Flash department general manager. With this non-volatile RAM, the storage industry will begin to enhance existing products and provide an extremely fast alternative storage option. This product is delayed even less than flash technology and begins to close to the speed of DRAM memory.