2014: Top Storage Technology Advancements to Watch Out
We hand-picked top storage technologies that are ready to take their place and have an impact on your data center in 2014. Flash Storage: Now a Mainstream. The NVMe Work Group is developing an industry-standard PCI Express host controller interface to optimize how PCIe flash devices interact in storage systems. Another interesting advancement is around 3D Flash Memory which underpins vertical stacking technology to overcome the impending physical limitations and disadvantages of reducing flash's planar die size. Hyper-converged storage: The Next Big Thing Storage complexity and management will pave way to a new breed of storage systems called hyper-converged storage systems that will be all-in-one products evolving from converged systems that include storage, networking and compute, but also pack in a hypervisor. Hyper-converged storage will ease storage provisioning via a management portal , so the need to map LUNs and volumes is eliminated. SDx: All things Softw...