DQ LIVE: Ten storage trends for 2013

The augment to 2013 seems to be lined with a plethora of storage trends as reflected in the address of Hubert Yoshida, global CTO, Hitachi Data Systems at DQ Live today.

The 10 storage trends that Yoshida highlighted are as follows:
1) There is expected to be dramatic changes from opex to capex
2) Management of explosion of data replication is also posing to surface
3) New consumption models are going to assume importance
4) There is going to be emergence of flash controllers
5) There will be new requirement for entry of enterprise storage systems
6) There will be a need for object-based file systems
7) There is going to be an accelerating use of content platforms for data archives and data sharing
8) Hardware assisted controllers are expected to satisfy increasingly complex workloads
9) There will be the need to create a secure platform for the adoption of mobile devices
10) More tightly integrated converged solutions will be the order of the day.