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The power of storage in Industry 4.0
The GCC and Levant’s data storage market is set to reach a record‐high of US$8.5bn by 2027.
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At the core of the digital transformation is data and is the need to secure and analyse this data to gain business insights. How data storage is becoming crucial for transportation, power and manufacturing sectors?
020 HAS BEEN a year of unprecedented change for businesses globally and in the region. The onset of the pandemic brought with it the pressing need to accelerate digital transformation, especially to enable remote working across sectors. In a matter of days, companies had to upgrade their legacy infrastructure and equip employees to operate from anywhere. At the core of this transformation is data and the need to secure and analyse this data to gain business insights. In fact, according to the forecasts by Global DataSphere, data is expected to grow to 175 zettabytes by 2025 driven by investments in new
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emerging technologies. As we enter the data decade, enterprise data storage has become critical. According to a recent report from Coherent Market Insights, the GCC and Levant’s data storage market is set to reach a recordhigh of US$8.5bn by 2027, nearly tripling from US$2.9bn in 2019. In data storage – which touches every IT driven business – the pace of innovation is accelerating, yet most enterprises continue to struggle with data’s explosive growth and velocity. Getting the highest use and value from their data is becoming ever more critical for organisations, especially for those with data stores reaching exabyte scale.
Getting the highest use and value from their data is becoming ever more critical for organisations, especially for those with data stores reaching exabyte scale. Technical Review Middle East - Issue Four 2020
Transportation, power and manufacturing There are three major industries that often go unnoticed in discussions around enterprise storage – namely transportation, power and manufacturing. In the highly competitive transportation industry, speed and differentiation are the key. A wide range of organisations, from suppliers to mobility providers, are scaling infrastructures at the edge, bringing vehicles and intelligence closer. They are also scaling at the core and cloud to handle exponential data growth with agility. Challenges such as enabling autonomous vehicles to drive is incredibly data and compute intensive. The ability to achieve feats like this requires an agile, integrated, softwaredefined infrastructure enabled by purposebuilt storage solutions for automotive workflows. A case in point would be the racing industry which went far and beyond. With data analytics at the edge and core, data insights are used to develop and update more than 150,000 parts in a
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