{"id":30941,"date":"2019-12-16T09:45:02","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T09:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=30941"},"modified":"2019-12-16T09:45:51","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T09:45:51","slug":"pure-storage-expert-makes-predictions-for-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2019\/12\/16\/pure-storage-expert-makes-predictions-for-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Storage expert makes predictions for 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Assaad El Saadi, Regional Director \u2013 Middle East, Pure Storage, says 2020 looks to be the year that most enterprises evolve their private and hybrid cloud platforms beyond VMs, deploying an enterprise-wide container strategy. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Customers will demand a subscription to innovation with\nAs-a-Service business models<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As-a-Service models have existed since the beginning of public\ncloud. For most consumers of storage, hybrid cloud is the reality and the\nfuture – and they are looking to get the best out of both worlds; to drive\nsimplicity and automation from their on-premise infrastructure so they can\nmanage it like they manage the cloud, and to get the same enterprise\ncapabilities and control in the cloud, as they have on-premise – both in a\nflexible, subscription-based As-a-Service model. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, the demand\nfor As-a-Servicein storage will increase and organisations are speaking with their wallets with\nmore investment in OPEX models, but successful models need\nto balance both the operations and purchasing aspects. From an operations\nperspective, key attributes include standardisation (vs snowflakes), on-demand\naccess, API-driven management and limitless scale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the consumption side, key traits include a pay for what you use\nmodel, bursting capabilities (flex up\/down as needed), and a non-disruptive\nevergreen experience, services can be grown\/evolved over time without\ndisruption. And all this delivered as a 100% pay-per-month OPEX service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The re-emergence of Object Storage <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Object Storage has shaken off its roots as cheap-and-deep cold\nstorage and has started to emerge as the new form of primary storage.\nOriginally conceived to support the management of extremely large datasets\n(beyond what traditional file systems could handle), Object Storage has become\nthe storage standard for cloud-native applications – for its ability to support\nhighly parallel and distributed access to large data sets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As applications are developed or re-platformed for cloud-friendly\narchitectures, Object\nStorage will become the natural choice for enabling applications to decouple\nand disaggregate applications and their compute resources\nfrom a pool of shared storage. This pattern has taken hold not only in custom\nSW development but also with large software vendors such as Splunk and Vertica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modern analytics has reached rocketship status<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fuelling the growth for modern analytics is more affordable\ninfrastructure options such as more powerful CPUs, consumption-based\ninfrastructure, available both on-prem and in the public cloud, and lower\npriced flash memory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is also a significant growth in stream analytics platforms,\nboth open source (Apache Flink, Apache Beam and Spark Streaming) and commercial\n(Splunk DSP) replacing more and more batch-based processing platforms. Modern\nanalytics can now reach larger scale with cloud native analytics architectures\ncomprised of stateless servers and container and high-performance S3 object\nstores. Additionally, the unbridled growth of data sources including smart\ndevices (smart home, wearables, connected cars, industrial Internet, etc.) will\ndrive the adoption of modern analytics in order to drive more insights. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flash will defy the impossible with next-gen media like QLC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the introduction of flash, it\u2019s largely been relegated to\nTier 1, performance-centric applications, but with new solid state technologies\nsuch as Storage Class Memory (SCM) and QLC coming online and stratifying the\nmemory space, flash is really poised to break out and address whole new swaths\nof data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the high-end, with the combination of SCM and high-speed\nprotocols like NVMe-oF, shared storage arrays can now provide server-based\nstorage like performance to the most latency-sensitive applications. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This set of applications is one of the last holdouts sitting on\nDAS which can now get all of the data-services common to shared storage (data\nprotection, data reduction, etc.) – it\u2019s now possible to get the top-end\nperformance and rich data services. At the same time, the impending introduction of QLC is\nbringing flash to tiers of storage that have largely stayed on magnetic disk to\ndate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This cost reduction enables all applications to take advantage of\nthe benefits of flash beyond performance: simplicity, reliability, and reduced\ndata centre power and\nspace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI operations will go from advisory roles to automated action as\ncustomers want a hands-free approach <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organisations will be more open to AI making decisions for them. Customers\nwant to set policies and let the vendors implement the policies, which is\npartially driven by the declarative nature of Kubernetes\n<\/a>and container management. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The simplicity of containers will enable organisations to define a state, and the container will be the catalyst. The\ntechnology should then drive and deliver insights within the whole environment.\nAI will be applied to efficiently finding where the predictive model performs\npoorly and augmenting data for that feature space. This is critical for AI\napplications like anomaly detection and automatic root cause analysis to scale\nand be applicable in more contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Containers are breaking into mainstream, requiring persistent\nstorage options<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Containers were born to make deploying stateless applications as\nsimple and low-overhead as possible. But as the emergence of Kubernetes and the\nendorsement of containers by VMware is rapidly expanding container usage\ntowards mainstream applications, delivering persistent storage for containers\nis critical to enable databases and applications to re-platform for containers.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The year 2020 looks to be the year that most enterprises evolve\ntheir private and hybrid cloud platforms beyond VMs, deploying an enterprise-wide\ncontainer strategy, including building the storage foundation that enables\nstateful, mission-critical applications to embrace containers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Assaad El Saadi, Regional Director \u2013 Middle East, Pure Storage, says 2020 looks to be the year that most enterprises evolve their private and hybrid cloud platforms beyond VMs, deploying an enterprise-wide container strategy. Customers will demand a subscription to innovation with As-a-Service business models As-a-Service models have existed since the beginning of public cloud. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":30946,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4950,399,6292,10675],"tags":[917,12038,1556,145,532,406,4085,1224,573,236,12039],"class_list":["post-30941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis","category-more-news","category-storage","category-thought-leadership","tag-917","tag-assaad-el-saadi","tag-container","tag-enterprises","tag-hybrid-cloud","tag-middle-east","tag-predictions","tag-private-cloud","tag-pure-storage","tag-storage","tag-vms"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30943,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30941\/revisions\/30943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}