Software solutions company Scality foresees that containers and hybrid cloud will be at the forefront of the data storage landscape in 2021, said AIthority. Two are expected to revolutionize architectures and save millions of dollars, respectively.
According to Scality CTO Giorgio Regni, “Cloud-native and containers are rapidly turning into the new blueprint for application development and underlying cloud infrastructure services.”
The containerization of data storage is deemed an important development in the industry as it is predicted to transform solutions architectures.
Regmi added, “For the storage industry, the container trend represents a significant inflection point that will transform deployment architectures leveraging Kubernetes and container-native storage APIs.”
Containerization is a type of operating system virtualization that offers more efficiency in terms of storing and expenses in IT operations. Containers can be managed using container management platforms such as Kubernetes.
Scality's predictions for 2021 remarks that solutions will become more container-centric, with increases in scale and demands.
It also expects the development of new container products that would allow data-focused applications to use Container Storage Interface (CSI)-type volumes. This is also expected to “reduce the complexity of large-scale Kubernetes deployments,” as per AIthority.
Regarding hybrid solutions, Regni said, “The accelerated growth of next-generation cloud-native digital apps and services will define new competitive requirements in every industry.”
Scality predicts that hybrid cloud data management will become more popular among organizations for disaster recovery (DR). This means that DR involving two physical data centers will no longer be the trend in 2021.
It will be replaced by hybrid cloud solutions. This will handle synchronized copies of data on-premise and in the public cloud.
The use of a hybrid solution is expected to lower the costs by eliminating the need to maintain and service two remote locations.
Scality is also optimistic about flash storage, anticipating the development of high-density solutions next year. It expects wide deployment for such solutions, which enables users to store large amounts of data in smaller form factors.
The predictions also expect that flash storage will offer high performance with lower prices, which allows users and enterprises to use it for high-scale storing. This is in contrast with the current state of flash, which is relatively small in scale and capacity, with latency.
Users may want to adopt flash for capacity-optimized solutions that allow them to take advantage of the benefits such as its density, scale, and speed.
