Data Center Strategies for the CIO
E-mail archiving, midrange arrays, virtual tape and disk-based backup, SAS/SATA drives and remote office support are the technologies that will be most in demand next year.
The editors of Storage considered a wide range of technologies, from sexy products like flash memory and holographic storage to workhorses like midrange arrays, when narrowing the list of what we feel will be the hot storage technologies for 2006. Subsequent discussions with analysts and IT managers confirmed our final choices. In this assessment, "hot" means those products IT organizations are most likely to need and will seriously consider in the coming year. Serial-attached SCSI (SAS) and serial ATA (SATA) disk technology underwent long-overdue, major upgrades over the past year. Next year, these technologies will figure prominently in almost every disk buying decision. Remote replication and virtual tape libraries (VTLs) have been around for a while. In 2006, they'll attract renewed attention as backup and disaster recovery move to the forefront in the wake of a flurry of devastating natural disasters. And the midrange array, which has been an essential storage option for years, will become an even more popular alternative in 2006. This will occur as a result of the combined influences of vendors pushing down market by adding capabilities and cutting costs, and information lifecycle management, which is driving organizations to
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set up tiers of storage to make the most cost-effective use of their storage investments.
We also expect WAN accelerators, remote vaulting and remote office technologies—which have been hovering on the periphery of the industry for several years—to gain prominence as organizations look to simplify their storage environments by reining in satellite offices. E-mail archiving, which seemingly came out of the blue following a huge fine levied against Morgan Stanley for failing to deliver documents requested by the court, may become the hottest of the hot storage technologies in 2006. Panicked corporate executives willing to spend whatever it takes to avoid a similar fate in our increasingly litigious business environment will propel the rush to archive e-mail.
The path from hype to hot is a slippery slope, strewn with technologies that, for one reason or another, never reached the hot, must-have plateau. Storage expects the following technologies to make the perilous transition from hype to hot in 2006.
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