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I’ve done some crystal ball gazing in my first couple of blogs – looking forward at what is likely to come about in those technology spaces we care about and specifically in the world of Storage. What’s a look forward without a glance back though at where we have come from? A good place to start is the IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker for the last Quarter of 2014 – results were released recently and there were some very interesting trends for those of us with a stake in the business to digest. The full report can be accessed here. First the good news – after a poor 2013 where revenues had contracted disk systems revenue registered a nice little uptick of 8.6%. (or 7.2% depending on just which set of numbers you believe). This may have been down to a stellar last Quarter that reversed what was till then a year of decline. Estimates have put the worldwide enterprise storage systems revenue at $ 10.6 Billion for the last Q of 2014 and at close to $36 Billion ...

This infographic depicts Storage Trends & its effect on Datacenters. It says that the next generation datacenter would be Agile, Scalable, Automated and Guaranteed. Following are the key trends: 1) By using Flash technology, Data access has just become quicker and easier. 2) By using Software Defined Environment, we can get maximum utilization of minimum resources. We can reduce 80% of energy and storage cost if we use Software Defined Storage. We must consider it before our next storage purchase and data migration projects. If we are scaling out from storage to cloud then we will have certain challenges which are mentioned here in this infograph. Storage Trends 2015 To know more email:  blog@calsoftinc.com Contributed by: Shraddha Agrawal | Calsoft Inc.

Got an opportunity to attend SNIA-DSI conference at Santa Clara, California. Like always, this time too, SNIA maintained its reputation of being a one-stop shop for vendor-neutral education for storage specialists, solutions from industry leaders. The power packed agenda with separate simultaneous tracks on solid state storage, disaster recovery, storage management, networking and security promised interesting insights and the speakers made sure that the conference lived up to its promise of becoming a venue for demonstration of storage innovations, and storage networking. One of the sessions which definitely deserves a mention is the one by Andrea Nelson from Intel. The session saw a packed hall and the speaker did not disappoint the attendees. It was very informative and extremely engaging. With Intel’s latest focus on helping vendors and partners provide more effective storage offerings, it was interesting to hear it from Andrea about new innovations from Intel to accelerate ...