IT sector braces for explosive growth in data

The explosive growth of information will continue to be the biggest concern for the IT industry as Big Data begins to take centre stage, creating both challenges and opportunities.

Hu Yoshida, vice president and chief technology officer of Hitachi Data Systems, said last week that exabytes will enter into planning discussions and petabytes will be the new norm for large data stores. The attention will be focused on secondary data generated for copies and backups. The cost of ownership for storage will go through a major change as operating costs come down and capital costs begin to creep up.

Hardware will become a greater share of cost of ownership because of the increase of functionality and the demand for storage capacity. Because instead of buying all their storage for the next four to five years, organisations will buy what they need when they need it.

"To do this, organisations need to leverage technologies and capabilities like dynamic storage provisioning, virtualisation and non-disruptive data migration. Storage vendors may also provide managed services for organisations," he said.

The adoption of high-performance flash solid state drives in the enterprise has been slow due to their high price and limited durability compared to hard disk drives. This year will see the introduction of flash controllers with advanced processors that are built specifically for enterprise storage systems and increase the durability, performance and capacity of flash memory.

The gap between enterprise and mid-range storage architectures is narrowing as the industry begins to demand entry enterprise storage systems. These systems can scale up with increasing workloads by adding more processors, ports and caches and still offer a midrange price point.

The growth of unstructured data will require larger, more scalable file systems. Standard file systems will need to be replaced by object-based file systems to meet this growing demand. Managing file system data and meta data as objects enable fast file system restores, allow high-performance file access and provide automated file-tiering. However, the application data remain locked in separate silos.

This year, the use of content platforms for data archives and data sharing will accelerate as users try to correlate information from different applications.

Adoption of mobile devices increases productivity and innovation, but also creates a nightmare for corporate data centres. This year will see the emergence of secure platforms for data sharing that minimise the security threat of mobile devices and further increase the productivity of mobile workers.

"We will see the growing acceptance of unified computer platforms where the management and orchestration of server, storage and network resources will be done through a single pane of glass," he said.

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