Storage and data management trends - 2018 and beyond

With the ever-growing data churn, companies are in need of newer ways to utilize their storage more efficiently than ever. Digital transformation is here to stay resulting in huge volumes of digital data, addressing Bigdata issues, having an integrated data management and cloud strategy to support scale of businesses. This put together calls for a strategy that plans, integrates and manages the storage infrastructure to be ‘transformation ready’. The talk will touch upon crucial factors in Storage and Data management that range from Datacenter elements, data movement across the technology stack, up until backup, archival and business continuity carefully highlighting the challenges and opportunities at hand. The talk will also summarize the most astounding trends in traditional as well as software-defined storage that were registered so far, and carve a depiction about what we should expect in 2018 and beyond.