DATA CENTRE PREDICTIONS
Digital Transformation and
multi-protocol
Paul Speciale, Chief Product Officer, Scality
Multi-cloud unification
Data storage will become massively
decentralised as enterprises leverage a
combination of on-premises and public
cloud IT resources. This will create a need
for a unified namespace and control plane
to simplify data visibility and access.
Moreover, corporations will use a variety
of public clouds, each one selected to help
solve specific business problems, thereby
creating a multi-cloud data management
problem. In addition, the emergence
of Edge Computing will further drive
decentralisation as corporations choose
to deploy IT resources ‘near’ the Edge
devices they manage. These trends all
help to create a new and extreme ‘cloud
data silos’ scenario that can only be
addressed by solutions that provide global
data visibility across these distributed
clouds and data centres.
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Multi-protocol systems will be embraced
during Digital Transformation. Customers
transforming from legacy applications to
cloud-native applications will continue
to embrace RESTful protocols as their
standard mechanism for accessing data
storage services and systems. Systems
that are multi-protocol (legacy protocols
such as NFS and SMB for file access
plus new RESTful APIs such as AWS S3
and Azure Blob Storage for object style
access) will be adopted to help companies
transition during this phase. Moreover,
object storage services and systems will
become a standard solution for stateful
container storage.
Infrastructure application will
be deployed on Kubernetes,
including storage
Kubernetes will be the default platform
for infrastructure deployment in the data
centre. As enterprises transform and
adopt cloud-native applications, the
need for a standard deployment and
orchestration framework for containers
will increase, just as it did during the
Virtual Machine (VM) wave over the
course of the last two decades.
Kubernetes will be that standard
orchestration platform, not only for
applications deployed in containers,
but also for infrastructure elements
built as services and microservices.
This will extend to data storage and
data management infrastructure
deployed on Kubernetes.
Monopolies and the cloud
This year, IT teams will make the move
from ‘all-cloud’ initiatives to hybrid- and
multi-cloud data management solutions
as they continue to recognise that to
depend 100% on a single cloud provider is
to empower a monopoly. Cloud providers
have capitalised on lock-in and their
customers see it. And this is a key reason
THIS YEAR, IT
TEAMS WILL
MAKE THE MOVE
FROM ‘ALL-CLOUD’
INITIATIVES TO
HYBRID- AND
MULTI-CLOUD DATA
MANAGEMENT
SOLUTIONS.
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