Data management driving storage innovation

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February 27, 2023 11:39 am
Colin Presly, Senior Director, Office of the CTO, Seagate Technology.

In an era when businesses are deluged with data, a lot is going on in the industry to optimise data movement around a system. Data movement can be optimised in two major ways: via data reduction technology and through data awareness methods. While software-based techniques have primarily addressed this issue, hardware-based technologies are now growing in popularity.

Examples of techniques increasingly being implemented in hardware include encryption, compression, and dedupe. Data awareness tools that have a great deal of momentum going into 2023 are AI- and ML-based methods. Companies should be aware of hardware-based acceleration and offload as they increase their storage deployment.

Emerging interfaces will continue to reduce complexity of storage systems.  CXL and NVMe have gotten a lot of traction in 2022. In 2023 that traction will give way to a more simplified deployment. Increasingly, NVMe over fabric is being used to mesh end devices together. CXL will be key to extending memory as systems continue to become disaggregated.

Convergence of interfaces allows for simplification of solutions as well as expansion of composability use cases. Thanks to this trend, businesses will be able to spend less on connectivity and hardware.

Heat-assisted magnetic recording technology will power the latest inflection in mass-capacity devices. The HAMR-enabled boost in areal density will help fuel next-generation hard drive development and growth through the next decade. HAMR technology will enable the first-generation of 30TB+ hard drives, which will ship in 2023. HAMR will enable the new trajectory of capacity growth, providing businesses more room for their data.

Key takeaways

  • Companies should be aware of hardware-based acceleration and offload as they increase their storage deployment.
  • Convergence of interfaces allows for simplification of solutions as well as expansion of composability use cases.
  • Businesses will be able to spend less on connectivity and hardware.
  • Heat-assisted magnetic recording technology will power the latest inflection in mass-capacity devices.
Colin Presly, Senior Director, Office of the CTO, Seagate Technology.
Colin Presly, Senior Director, Office of the CTO, Seagate Technology.

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