A Snapshot of Storage Market Predictions

An excerpt from A snapshot of market predictions from 37 vendors - January 2019 storagenewsletter.com

StorONE

Gal Naor, CEO

Organizations are tired of bolt-on storage solutions, adding hardware to achieve high performance or high capacity, and having to leverage yesterday’s technologies to try to handle today’s workloads. 2019 will be a year of innovation. As IT struggles to achieve the results they need in terms of performance, data protection and cost, they will seek out a unified approach using core technologies that can provide immediate ROI. In the upcoming year, we shall see enterprises adopting solutions that help them overcome the following challenges:

Getting more storage with less hardware

Achieving a higher utilization rate from storage hardware allows organizations to use dramatically less of it to achieve the same performance. Whether using AFAs to achieve ultra-high performance with very low latency or high throughput with HDDs, extracting the full value of the drives will result in less overall cost. We will see the emergence of software solutions for hardware challenges that will result in the lowest CAPEX and TCO with less hardware to buy and manage.

Assuring complete data retention and data protection

Enterprise-class functionality will no longer be a nice-to-have feature but something that will be built into next-generation software solutions. Rather than having to buy and integrate external solutions – again, less hardware! – Enterprises will be able to achieve complete data protection without performance degradation within a single solution that provides unlimited snapshots and high-performance erasure coding all included without paying more.

Future-proofing data storage

Getting ahead of the curve is often a pipe-dream in IT. Too much time and effort is spent putting out fires, having to plan for future capacity or performance needs. In 2019, more organizations will be looking for solutions that provide the flexibility they need to simplify their storage environment and allow them to make changes on the fly. A complete and central storage solution that allows for the mix and matching of any drive type (HDD, SSD) from any vendor, and any capacity; any physical hardware or virtual appliance. 2019 will be the first time software will enable block, file and object protocols to run on the same drives included on one platform.

In 2019, a new wave of innovation will emerge, providing organizations with performance and capacity with dramatically less hardware in a single solution while providing all enterprise-class functionality and protocols to satisfy the needs of their mission-critical applications today and into the future.

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