Written by: Drew Robb
Source URL: http://www.infostor.com/disk-arrays/ssd-drives/8-big-enterprise-ssd-trends-to-expect-in-2017.html
Predictions for the trajectory of enterprise solid state devices (SSD) vary widely. In fact, the old definition of SSD as a solid state drive – one that could be put into a hard drive slot – appears to be vanishing rapidly as more form factors appear.
However it is defined, enterprise SSD is in for a big year. Here are eight of the biggest trends that the experts predict will become apparent this year.
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Lee Caswell, vice president of products, storage and availability at VMware, is bullish with regard to how dominant enterprise SSD will become. He sees a similar trajectory between SSDs in software-defined storage (SDS) solutions and server virtualization.
“Just as server virtualization reached a tipping point years ago where admins had to justify why they were NOT going to virtualize a certain workload, software-defined storage will do that to traditional storage this year,” he said. “Proprietary enterprise storage will become increasingly difficult to justify, particularly as more organizations embrace modern development practices such as continuous integration (CI), continuous delivery (CD) and DevOps. [Hyper-converged infrastructure] (HCI) solutions powered by software-defined storage and all-flash storage are the perfect implementation for these new ideas and practices.”
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