Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Predictions
- In This Study
- Situation Overview
- On-Target Predictions
- Center of the Target
- Within the Target
- Near-Target Predictions
- Future Outlook
- 1. Online Storage Services (Storage as a Service) Such as Online Backup, Archiving, and Replication Will Be Accepted as a Viable Option
- 2. New Role-Based Storage Systems Will Enable Vendors to Target Specific Storage and Data Management Issues But Will Require Tighter Integration Between the Content-Generating Application and Storage Layer
- 3. Vendors Will Begin to Design Object-Based Storage Systems That Focus on Addressing Attributes Associated with Specific Data Types
- 4. Solid State Disks Will Become More Viable for Mainstream Storage Solutions as a Result of Declining Price Points
- 5. Virtual Servers (e.g., VMware) Will Emerge as the Killer Application for iSCSI
- 6. Value-Added Storage Services Will Begin to Be Divorced from Storage Subsystems, Resulting in Further Commoditization of Storage Subsystems
- 7. A Growing Number of Enterprises Will Adopt Full-Disk Encryption into the Datacenter to Fall Within the Safe Harbor Provisions of Many Compliance Regulations
- 8. Vendors Will Create More Attractive "All In One" Solutions Using an Integrated Server and Storage Approach to Address the Lucrative SMB Market
- 9. Partial Hardware Refreshes That Require Nondisruptive Expansions/Replacements Will Be Demanded by Customers to Up the Ante on "Green" Initiatives
- 10. Deduplication, Single Instancing, VTL, and Thin Provision Will Become Standard Options on Storage Systems to Enable Customers to Become More "Green"
- Not This Year, But on the Horizon
- Data Persistence
- Blu-ray Versus HD DVD
- Fiber Channel over Ethernet
- Essential Guidance
- Guidance for End Users
- Guidance for Storage Industry Vendors
- Learn More
- Related Research
- Synopsis
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