Storage predictions for 2015: The future looks bright!

In 2015, infrastructure convergence will become the standard and the new norm in data centers. IT vendors have been hyping “Hyper-converged” solutions as the focus of their value proposition for reducing costs and simplifying IT roll-outs as they provide you with modular building blocks for the new data center. The enabling technology for these new converged solutions is virtualization, which leads to intelligent abstraction. Server virtualization is now the new norm, and has become a factor in driving converged infrastructure for both networks and storage.

Virtual servers are killing off traditional SAN storage. Blade servers and virtual servers need to share CPU hardware and storage interconnects as a way to make them cost effective. The sharing of these interconnects is forcing the storage to move closer to, or even back into the servers. The fact that virtual servers share hardware for compute and memory resources, including input/output connectivity for both network and storage is increasing the need for improved latency and connectivity, along with higher bandwidth for those shared resources.

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