Top 7 storage trends to watch out for in 2013: Symantec

Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Editorial Staff.

Symantec foresees several exciting trends in the storage space in the coming year. Here are top seven trends that are set to influence the storage area within the enterprise IT in 2013:

1. Software defined data center becomes the new buzzword

Software defined data centers will take on cloud computing to become the new industry buzzword. In 2013, software defined storage will have significant impact on cloud, appliances and SSDs/Flash storage implementations. Also, commodity hardware, appliances and cloud will become increasingly reliant on smart software that will define and drive the future of data center computing…

1. Increased adoption of flash storage

The year 2013 will see an increase in solid state/flash storage adoption. Flash Storage will be trialed at nearly every Fortune 1000 enterprise within the year, and will begin to replace tier one storage.

3. The target deduplication appliance market will be disrupted & replaced by integrated backup appliances

Deduplication at the storage target will increasingly be replaced by deduplication closer to the source. Also, purpose built deduplication appliances will be replaced with integrated backup appliances that combine source and target deduplication, backup software, replication, snapshots, security and cloud integration in a single appliance…

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