Data storage and management solutions company Spectra Logic has published its annual Storage Outlook report. This is the sixth edition, and it provides a strategy for applying storage architectures and technologies that will help protect, manage and preserve the previous, current and future data.
The Spectra report provides forecasts for a range of storage technologies, including flash memory, magnetic disks, tape, hybrid cloud, SCM and optical devices, and provides a brief overview of future technologies.
“The pandemic has made predicting the future an uncertain task, but even so, it is vital that storage technology manufacturers and users have access to insights to help them anticipate future technologies, applications, use cases and costs, and have accurate planning. Today is critical to tomorrow’s success, ” – said David Trachy, Senior Director of Emerging Markets at Spectra Logic.
Highlights from the Spectra report:
- Flash: Flash vendors will increasingly rely on stacking technology to create chips with more layers. This can lead to a slight decrease in the cost of flash memory. System and cloud providers will take advantage of ZNS zoning to extend the lifespan, improve performance, and increase the capacity of their flash resources.
- Hard drives: The two dominant industry leaders are pursuing completely different strategies in their migration to higher capacity drives, with one focusing entirely on HAMR technology and the other focusing on more gradual development using eMAMR, MAMR and HAMR technologies. The tiled SMR versions of these drives support up to 20% more capacity, making them very attractive to system and cloud service providers.
- Tape media: LTO-9 cartridges will go on sale later this year with a capacity of 18 TB per cartridge, 50% more than the LTO-8 version. The new standard interface will significantly expand the number of areas where tape can be used.
- Hybrid perpetual storage: The emergence of new hybrid storage systems will leverage the power of cloud and / or on-premises processing while ensuring long-term storage of any data, no matter where it is processed.
- SCM, or memory based on 3D XPoint (Optane PMem) technology, which is now available for purchase in various capacities, could seriously affect the DRAM market.
Spectra continues to assume the dominance of a two-tier storage architecture consisting of multiple storage types, with primary-tier storage requirements fully met by solid-state storage technologies, and secondary storage tier implemented with magnetic disks, tape drives, and object storage. deployed locally or in the cloud.
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