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FLOURISH KNOWLEDGE NETWORKING POWER PROTECTION -Editorial Dear Fitagians, Greetings!!! FITAG has completed 7 years since its inception and FITAG times has also completed 2 years i.e. 24 issues. I must mention at this juncture that we have lost something which was very closely associated with FITAG as well as FITAG Times. Mr. Sejal Patel, who had been doing a business in Mahesana, joined FITAG as an executive member and graduated to the level of General Secretary of FITAG. He has permanently shifted to USA and we as FITAG will not be able to get his extra ordinary services any more. He is one of rarest

7 Storage Trends That Will Transform Your Data Center With so much change and innovation in the storage industry, it can be hard for an IT pro to keep up. Here are key technologies and trends that are poised to radically alter data center storage.

W Mr. Kaushik Pandya Editor

character I have seen. A keen observer, a true and honest person, hard worker and fully dedicated to FITAG. He had helped FITAG growing and remained an integral part of the federation since its inception. He also served as assistant editor of FITAG Times. This post if now vacant and I am in a serious need of a person who can take up this challenge. Those interested may please come forward. Hail FITAG!! <

e now have 16TB solid-state drives, exceeding even the densest bulk storage hard drive in capacity. With mid-tier SSDs priced 50% lower than “enterprise� hard drives while running as much as 1000x faster, the latter are about to fade away. Once the new innovations in 3D NAND and wear-life extension really kick in, sometime in the 2017 timeframe, SSDs will be within the price range of even bulk storage hard drives, and the era of the spinning drive will come to an end. Products such as XPoint storage and ReRAM, together with closer coupling approaches such a Hybrid Memory Cube and its variants, will

impact systems from 2017 onwards, though it will be a battle royal to usurp a wellentrenched flash technology. A number of vendors are looking at variations of HMC designs, where 3D die stacking and the use of TSVs extends to stacking the CPUI/GPU and memory devices on modules with unprecedented bandwidth, possibly exceeding a terabyte per second. XPoint-type designs seem to fit this model, though there are other technologies in competition, such as ReRAM (HP) and spintronic memories. SPONSOR VIDEO, MOUSEOVER FOR SOUND The bottom line is that server performance will take a big step upward, changing

how jobs are distributed in the server pool and the size and layout of next-generation data centers. Primary storage is rapidly evolving in two directions, with and very fast direct-attached PCIe-NVMe SSDs in virtual SANs competing with all-flash arrays. It is too early to declare a winner and this will lead to a period of confusion involving hyperconverged systems battling storage appliances and a repositioning of all the vendors.

Ethernet has surpassed Fiber-Channel on every front

and is evolving faster. With Ethernet also underpinning new storage approaches from object storage to big data, the writing is on the wall for the

SAN approach. SANs will take a while to go away, but the modern data center needs to be built around the new approaches or face rapid obsolescence. We face a Linux-like revolution in storage. Traditional vendors mark up COTS gear heavily, creating a sense of injustice, while the barriers to self-integration of reliable solutions have fallen dramatically. The key is that COTS

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