The storage market is growing at a great pace as the data generated by organizations has grown drastically in recent times. New technologies are making big impact on how data can be secured and managed by the companies.
Major Trends to Watch in 2022
“First, it's time for file workloads to move to the cloud, as unstructured file data growth is straining enterprise data centers. Yet migrating file data to the cloud is complex, since it often spans petabytes and converting files to cloud objects is disruptive for users and workflows. There are many new cloud file storage offerings to choose from as the public cloud providers and storage vendors roll out new solutions. Data management solutions can help by first transparently tiering cold data to object storage so that only hot data is placed in cloud file storage-- maximizing savings,” said Prateek Kansal, Head of Operations and Engineering India, Komprise. Security concerns, especially ransomware, remain top of mind and data management teams are intertwined with these strategies. Protecting data from ransomware can be prohibitively expensive due to the size of enterprise backups. Therefore, “right-sized” ransomware protection, rather than the “one size fits all” approach, will gain traction. This approach requires segmenting less-used data to a lower cost location, such as the cloud, to reduce backup licensing costs. Placing data into immutable cloud storage so it cannot be attacked by ransomware is a key strategy.
Prateek further added, “Another data management area to watch is cross-platform, portable tag management, giving data professionals the means to move files into new clouds or applications without losing tags needed to rapidly search and segmenting data for data analytics projects. Finally, data fabrics are gaining traction; they bridge data and storage silos and deliver greater portability, visibility, and governance. This makes it possible for data lakes and analytics applications to access unstructured data locked in files. Data fabric technologies should be open, standards-based, and look across environments.”
Business Opportunities for Channel Partner
“Komprise is a comprehensive platform that solves multiple problems for customers in their data management struggles. Unstructured data is growing by leaps and bounds and will continue to accelerate with AI, ML, IoT and digitization. The struggle is understanding that data, what’s the most efficient storage target and how to leverage/monetize that data going forward. Komprise customers see rapid ROI—saving up to 70% on storage, backup and DR costs—through analyzing data across hybrid storage and right-placing it. We provide opportunities to partners in various markets and high demand in Healthcare/Life Sciences, Media & Entertainment, Higher Education, Energy (Oil/Gas) & Financial vertical markets” stated Prateek Kansal.
