At a time, when companies are looking to increase performance and capacity, simply adding storage may result in ineffcient silos while taking the physical data centre/storage room to their limits. More than ever, companies need to get the most out of their technology investments. For this reason, technologies such as virtualisation and automation will continue to gain traction as they help businesses drive down costs, feels Prakash Krishnamoorthy, Country Manager, HP Storage Works
Division, HP India.

Convergence of infrastructure along with storage virtualisation will be two key trends. Converged infrastructure brings together pools of networking, storage, servers, management software, power and cooling in one single environment, allowing organisations to easily build an elastic infrastructure.

“Storage plays a critical role in the converged infrastructure by allowing customers to virtualise stored data and create a unifed virtual resource pool that is instantly accessible to support changing business needs,” feels Krishnamoorthy.

HP feels that some of the future opportunities in storage will revolve around areas like cloud-based storage and solid state drives (SSDs). “This year we will see more companies take advantage of cloud computing to cut costs and become more agile in a world of data explosion,” he feels.

SSDs, are still in the early phase of adoption, but these drives are increasingly making their way into everyday consumer PCs and enterprises. “As more vendors continue to enter the market with SSDs and volumes start to increase, the end-user price of the technology will continue to decline,” feels Krishnamoorthy.

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