Top Storage Technology Priorities in 2020 as Per Technology End Users

Technology research firm Coldago recently came up with a storage end-users survey focusing on storage related technology needs, must-have product capabilities and top technologies adoption priorities. The end-users are companies that pick, deploy and used IT products to support their business activity and mission. A total of 1,123 US companies and 560 European companies were surveyed to collect their view on storage technologies. End users belong to the Enterprise and SMB segments with 50% from each segment spanning across various verticals and use-cases. We think this will give storage startups several insights into where the storage technology is heading as we forecast the future. Here are the answers to some of the key Qs in the survey. The dark bars for US based end user’s response and light bars are for Europe based end user’s response.

What are the technologies you will consider for new projects in 2020?

What are your top 3 priorities in storage and data management for 2020?

How do you address storage capacity needs?

How do you protect data?

If you use Enterprise SaaS applications, how do you protect your data?

If you use tape, for which role?

Did you adopt, currently assess or plan to use a SDS solution soon?

If you use server virtualization, how is storage attached?

Do you use or plan to use Containers?

With a stateful or stateless mode?

If you use(d) SAN (FC or IP), did/do you and plan to adopt into NVMe-over-Fabrics?

With which transport layer?

What are the features you need and think you will deploy in 2020?

Do you use cloud storage service?

What for?

Do you use open source storage solution?

Do you use or plan to use Persistent Memory?

We believe that storage economics will be very crucial as edge infrastructure shifts data center economics to a more manageable scale. Edge DCs will be a natural and intelligent extension to the existing framework of Hyperscale DCs which incorporate significant initial CapEx and continued investments to keep up with the infrastructure technology. Edge computing storage architecture using open source assets could be highly agile and could create a flexible DevOps environment that may leverage miniature containers and other innovative resources which shifts burden from operating systems and other compute/storage resources in a typical cloud based architecture.

/Service Ventures Team