Every year sees the emergence of new technologies that disrupt the
status quo of the enterprise data centre. Disruption implies changes to existing practices - something that needs to have significant
cost/benefit savings in order to be adopted. As 2015 unfolds, we are
seeing a number of new technologies that have significant disruption potential.
These include:
- All-Flash & Hybrid Storage Arrays – shared storage based either solely on NAND flash technology or using flash to deliver
performance boosts at the price of spinning media
- Hyper-convergence – the melding of storage and compute into a single form factor
- Containers – thin and efficient application deployment
- Cloud Storage – solutions for moving data efficiently into public clouds
Many of these solutions come from new upstarts looking to challenge
the established players in the market. For many, the aim is to reach
IPO and be acquired – others are hoping to be the next NetApp or EMC
and have no desire to be subsumed into a larger mother ship. In
this special report for IDG Connect Chris M. Evans discusses some of
the companies delivering disruptive technology and analyses the
likely future state of the enterprise data centre.
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