Intelligent Data Centres Issue 13 | Page 17

DATA CENTRE PREDICTIONS SCALITY PREDICTIONS FOR THE DATA STORAGE INDUSTRY As this year takes hold, we are beginning to see some interesting trends developing throughout the data centre industry. Paul Speciale, Chief Product Officer, Scality, predicts the evolutions he expects to take place in storage at the Edge, multi-cloud, Digital Transformation, data breaches and sustainability. O Object storage at the Edge will be on flash Object storage will move into the Edge, for applications that capture large data streams from a wide variety of mobile, IoT and other connected devices. This will include event streams and logs, sensor and device data, vehicle drive data, image and video media data and more, with high data rates and high concurrency from thousands or more simultaneous data streams. These applications will be developed for cloud-native deployment and will therefore naturally embrace RESTful object style storage protocols – making object storage on flash media an optimal choice on the Edge to support this emerging class of data-centric applications. www.intelligentdatacentres.com Issue 13 17