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Emulex Predictions for 2015

By Shaun Walsh, VP marketing

emulex,walsh This article has been published on the blog of Emulex by its VP marketing, Shaun Walsh

… To Boldly Go Where No One Many Have Gone Before!

Yes, it’s that time of year again. After an exciting 2014, several new technologies have gained prominence in an effort to wrangle the explosion of data. Like the big bang, it seems the universe of data is expanding at the speed of light, creating the need for innovative new storage and networking technologies to help scale and manage it all.

So what can we expect in the new year? I’ve broken my predictions down into six major categories because there is a lot to cover.

Servers

  • The paradox of hyper-converged systems and disaggregating components will create new IT ‘Legos’ … modular building blocks controlled by software
  • Hyper-converged systems will drive higher bandwidth and lower latency in both hyperscale and enterprise data centers
  • The increased desire to reduce physical server footprints will create new opportunities for converged shared resources
  • Computing server form factors have been exploding and Open Compute Project (OCP) mezzanine cards will emerge as the open I/O standard

OpenStack, Cloud and Telco

  • The productization of open cloud communities and the Linux business model propagates into OpenStack
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) will launch on-premise strategies to disrupt in-house IT
  • There will be an OpenStack vs. AWS battle in the enterprise as OpenStack leaders claim to reduce costs by more than 60% over AWS
  • HP will become the market leader for OpenStack in the enterprise with a willingness to support legacy data center apps
  • Telco Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) will move from VMware to OpenStack’s Kernel-based VM (KVM) hypervisor

Networking

  • 2015 will be the year of the SDN-enabled white box switch
  • The Internet of Things, mobile payments and BYOD will accelerate the growth of 10, 25 and 40GbE
  • Adoption of 10GBASE-T will stall as the 25GbE consortium confuses the Ethernet market
  • 2015 will be the year iWARP dies because Intel will fail to deliver as RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) v2 emerges in the market
  • As a corollary, application developers will implement low-latency with RoCE in 2015, as Intel fails to integrate iWARP

Network and Application Performance

  • Monitoring-as-a-Service will emerge with OpenStack-enabled solutions
  • Virtual networks will require more granular monitoring for device attribution, because network quality can only be improved with higher granularity of the traffic visibility
  • 40/100GbE network monitoring will be the fastest growing segment in the Application-Aware Network Performance Management segment

Storage

  • Gen 6 (32Gb) FC will enter the market and will be teamed with SSD/flash to accelerate enterprise data as well as cloud apps
  • Object storage will move from the edge to the core with Ethernet-attached drives and OpenStack Ceph
  • 10/25Gb iSCSI will finally get some respect with NFV and OpenStack Cinder
  • RDMA-driven Ethernet will begin to displace SAS in the backplane of enterprise arrays by 2020
  • The first Non-volatile Memory Express (NVMe) arrays from start-up vendors will ship in 2015

Virtualization and Software-Defined

  • The Age of the hypervisor will be challenged with the ramp up of Docker/containers in the cloud
  • The ‘iTune’ing’ of software will change how capabilities are sold in the software-defined data center
  • I agree with Gartner Research that the second generation of sentient software-defined infrastructure will emerge in 2015

Obviously, this isn’t all encompassing, but the storylines I’m most interested to watch.

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