Storage: In this context, the ability of the enterprise to securely hold information. Our enterprise approach to storage is moving us away from storage tightly coupled to individual programs/projects towards storage that is managed as an enterprise mission/function.
- Enterprise storage options remain DAS, NAS, SAN with SCSI and iSCSI options. iSCSI will grow in the enterprise (different value propositions guarantee the continued coexistence of these options).
- All will drop in price and increase in capability.
- Rapid increase in sensor feeds will outpace our ability to store.
- Disparate, heterogeneous storage will be the norm well into the future. Distributed data synch and the software to manage data as an enterprise is the key requirement. Simultaneous shared access to large file storage systems. Data encryption at rest. More meta than data.
- Growth to multi-petabyte online distributed, federated archives. High performance grid storage.
- Massive Arrays of Idle Disks (MAID)
- Deduplication is important. Not just deduplication of backups. One to watch: Data Domain.
