Emerging Trends in Storage - Evaluating Future Directions

While performance continues to be the determining factor in favor of flash memory technologies, capacity and price factors will play a key role in deciding the product mix.

Industry experts generally agree that magnetic storage media such as tape disks and hard drive disks are here to stay for up to two more decades. However, the host of developments happening in different areas of storage presents a number of opportunities. This conclusion is driven by a number of developments which point to certain technologies maturing to market readiness within the next 2 to 3 years. Thus, the product roadmap has to be managed in an agile way to rapidly respond to accommodate emerging storage technologies. Even a brief lag in the ability to exploit a new storage technology could result in setbacks that would necessitate catch-up acts.

In this Knowledge Sharing article, Antony Jesa and Vijayakumar Ravindran present a comprehensive analysis of the latest developments in the field of magnetic storage as well as flash and SSDs. Further, they discuss how and why it may be prudent to arrive at a judicious mix of these technologies in order to deliver the best value proposition to the business.

Read the full article here.