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How Cloud-Based & Flash Drives Services are Mutating IT Storage Plans Higher capacity drives & arrays have been connected to the advancements in enterprise storage for quite a long time. Most of the established players had already set the core agenda for high-capacity storage while other players focused on serving the mid and lower segment of the market. Its really quite amazing to know that these big players are getting stiff competition from companies that released their products a few years ago.
A massive change in the scene has been the emergence of Microsoft as a key player in this domain. The tech giant acquired StorSimple 2 years back and now by acquiring InMage last month, the company has taken a big step forward in this direction. Further, the company also continues working on its move to optimize its Storage Spaces technology.
All of these are indeed the key agents of storage disruption as they are affecting IT decision makers plans for storage architecture. Storage in the enterprise is definitely witnessing a change, especially with unconventional players like Microsoft moving aggressively into storage. Most likely, this move from the tech giant is going to impact Microsoft Sharepoint development costs as well.
It would also not be wrong to say that these are also significantly altering the storage economies as data growth is approaching an all-time high. Several among the new storage providers have attained not only respectable revenues but also a decent client base. These new players have even drawn heavy interests from venture capital investors. As far as the reason behind these changes is concerned, three catalysts can be held responsible for the same.
The foremost reason for this is the constantly increasing presence of flash based SSD (solid state drive) arrays in datacenters. All of these players, except a few, have hybrid systems as well as pure flash arrays that are fully capable of accommodating hard disk drives and SSDs. Flash arrays are certainly not a new thing in datacenters and these are being deployed by a good number of medium sized companies.
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Cloud storage is another crucial factor responsible for this as it is using drive arrays for replacement of tape or secondary locations in many cases. Cloud as a storage (CaaS) tier is being enabled by almost all storage providers, whether hardware or software.
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As per the current scenario, every storage provider is evolving towards a common vision and that is software-defined datacenters (SDDCs). Its this vision that has been accepted as the third reason driving the change. Software-defined storage (SDS) and Software-defined networking (SDN) are the two prime components of SDDC. SDS pools computing, storage and networking, all three into one system, thereby empowering converged systems.
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