13 March 2010
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Storage imperatives for today and tomorrow
By Victor Ng | Nov 24, 2009
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PrintData explosion is putting a lot of pressure on storage resources, and it has become imperative for CIOs to deal with it effectively. Unfortunately, in times like these, storage budgets don't grow correspondingly; in most organizations, CIOs are required to do more with less.
According to Hu Yoshida, CTO of Hitachi Data Systems, data growth is exploding, but proportionately less and less data require fast, reliable - and therefore expensive - Tier 1 storage (such as flash drives and solid state disks). Only traditional structured data from enterprise applications require this.
In fact, CAGR for various data types from 2007 to 2011 is projected to be:
| Content depots (e.g. corporate web info) | 121.1% |
| Unstructured data (e.g. email and IM) | 63.7% |
| Replicated data (e.g. backups and archives) | 43.9% |
| Traditional structured date | 32.3% |
To deal with data explosion, Yoshida believes what CIOs need to do today is to:
- Maximize utilization
- Reduce costs
- Reclaim existing heterogeneous storage assets
- Simplify management
- Optimize data protection
Looking ahead, Vernon Turner, SVP for enterprise infrastructure, consumer and telecom research at IDC, says that the forces that would impact enterprise storage in 2010 are:
- Economic conditions - leading to consolidation of IT assets
- Rapid data growth - with or without virtualization, corporate and regulatory compliance
- Increasing utilization - from 2009, less than 50% of installed base come from new shipping
- Extending to the Cloud - better economics of this new way to acquire storage, with large organizations building private clouds and smaller organizations using public clouds
- Desktop virtualization - requiring lossless networks, SSD and enterprise flash drives, leading to increased complexity in the virtualized environment
- 10GbE - possibly the first IT decision to be made in 2010 for many companies, having been delayed in 2009 by the economic downturn
- Availability of FCoE - accelerated adoption expected in late 2010
