It's our favorite season. For the 14th year running, we get to compile the data storage technology trends we believe will have the largest impact on the world of storage in the coming year. Welcome to Hot Techs 2017!
As in past years, there's nothing bleeding-edge or impractical here, only newer storage tech that's been proven practical. Hence, while our list of storage technology trends represents the best and brightest the storage industry has to offer, it only includes technologies you can buy and deploy today.
Climb aboard, fasten your seatbelts and get ready to discover our take on what technologies will have the most profound effect on storage shops in 2017.
Cloud-to-cloud backup
Just because data's in the cloud doesn't mean it's adequately protected. Cloud-to-cloud backup fills that role by allowing enterprises to copy data stored on one cloud service to another cloud. Among the storage technology trends poised to have a big year in 2017, cloud-to-cloud backup vendors continue to add capabilities as user interest in the services grows.
Storage expert Brien Posey thinks cloud-to-cloud backup will likely become the norm by 2018. Why it's becoming popular is twofold. "First, backup technology is finally starting to catch up to the public cloud, making it more practical to do cloud-to-cloud backups," Posey wrote in an email. "Second, and this is the big one, is the economic factor."
For organizations moving data to the public cloud because it's cheaper, backing up to another cloud provider makes economic sense and offers the advantages of off-site backup.
Posey still sees a role for local backups and storage, but thinks local storage requirements will likely decrease over the next few years.
"We may see cloud backup moving to be the de facto standard, with snapshots retained on-prem for user error type restores," storage expert and consultant Chris Evans wrote in an email. "Backup software vendors need [to] and have started to adapt. The biggest losers could be backup appliances in this instance."
Specifically, with private-to-public cloud backups, there are tools to back up and restore applications into the cloud, saving money and improving operations, Evans added. And, he noted, software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and data also need backing up, which is most easily done through the cloud.
As an internet-based software delivery model, SaaS has become a major option for businesses looking to remove the overhead of providing a range of IT services (e.g., email, collaboration, CRM and so on) themselves. So, as SaaS grows and serious work moves to the cloud, more organizations are recognizing the value of cloud-to-cloud backup, said storage consultant Jim O'Reilly.
"Rather than returning data to the in-house data center, economics and operational efficiency suggest that a formal backup of cloud data into another cloud namespace is the best mechanism for totally protecting data in the cloud, whether from SaaS efforts or from owned applications," O'Reilly explained. "Increasing comfort with the cloud as a site for running serious apps and the increasing use of SaaS will make this a must-have approach for larger IT operations through 2017."
Major players in SaaS-oriented cloud-to-cloud backup include Asigra Cloud Backup, Barracuda Cloud-to-Cloud Backup, Datto Backupify and Dell EMC Spanning. Barracuda, among those that enhanced their cloud-to-cloud backup platforms in 2016, reduced how long it takes to complete incremental backups of hosted versions of Microsoft applications.
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