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IDC - Storage Trends : Delivering Management and Intelligence Through Cloud Services
1. IDC 1491
I D C V E N D O R S P O T L I G H T
Storage Trends: Delivering Management and
Intelligence Through Cloud Services
April 2013
Adapted from IDC's Worldwide Storage and Big Data Taxonomy, 2013 by Ashish Nadkarni and Laura DuBois,
IDC #239273 and Shared Nothing Architectures — A Blueprint for Software-Based Scale-Out Solutions
by Ashish Nadkarni, IDC #239526
Sponsored by Hitachi Data Systems
IDC expects storage to continue to be a hot market in 2013. Major trends such as Big Data and
cloud will continue to spur innovation. With the economy looking a bit better, many businesses may
increase their spending; in particular, companies will turn increasingly to the public cloud to manage
the growth of unstructured data as well as control costs.
This Vendor Spotlight explores the trends in cloud-based storage services and discusses the role that
Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) plays in this important market.
Introduction
File-based storage (FBS) and object-based storage (OBS) solutions continue to see increased
demand from all corners of the storage market today. This demand spans multiple industries and
sectors with newer use cases and delivery models and is bringing about a convergence between
these two sets of technologies.
Existing use cases such as information digitization, data retention policies, and globally dispersed
information sharing (to name a few) — all aimed at controlling the insatiable appetites for data
consumption — are increasingly moving to file- and object-based storage (FOBS). Pressures created
by four fundamental IT trends — cloud, mobility, social business, and Big Data — are expected to
create additional (and nearly unprecedented) demand for storage supporting unstructured data.
Given the emergence of newer use cases for file- and object-based storage — such as server and
desktop virtualization, machine-generated content repositories, and streaming data — FOBS
solutions that were once meant only for unstructured data are being used for semistructured and
structured data. In addition, newer delivery models such as public or private cloud–based storage are
increasingly relying on object-based storage as the platform, with data accessed via newer interfaces
such as HTTP/REST or via traditional file-based interfaces such as Network File System (NFS) and
Common Internet File System (CIFS).
Technologically, file-based and object-based storage solutions are converging. File-based storage
solutions are increasingly becoming object aware with the adoption of metadata-based parallel,
clustered, or distributed file systems and newer object-based data interfaces. Object-based solutions
on the other hand are becoming increasingly file friendly with the adoption of file-based interfaces.
The ongoing expansion of business-critical information, diverse data sets, divisive data sources, and
rich content within extended enterprises continues to change the storage dynamic in a wide range of
industries and organizations. Organizing this expanding universe of file- and object-based information
as efficiently as possible and at the same time extracting value from it are becoming core business
mandates.