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KubeCon: Storage Trends for Enterprise by Linux Foundation Research and Soda Foundation

Showing enterprises' pivot to cloud-based containerized environments and SDS revolutionizing way to manage data

The Linux Foundation, the non profit organization enabling mass innovation through open source, announced the release of the 2021 Data and Storage Trends Report, produced in collaboration between SODA Foundation and Linux Foundation Research.

It reveals new findings on enterprise use of data and storage as it relates to cloud services and workloads in the era of cloud Native, edge, IoT and 5G. SODA Foundation is also a sponsor of the recent KubeCon event.

Data has changed the nature of both enterprise computing and business operations,” said Steven Tan, chair, SODA Foundation, and VP and CTO of cloud storage solution, Futurwei Technologies, Inc.No longer can companies take a passive or reactive approach to market changes or customer behaviors. Understanding how to collect, manage and consume data is a competitive advantage in today’s digital economy, and we believe the 2021 Data and Storage Trends Report can inform this journey.”

Our collaboration with SODA Foundation represents our service to industry and community as a research center for understanding key technology trends that inform open source development and resource allocation,” said Hilary Carter, VP, Linux Foundation Research. “Linux Foundation Research is happy to be doing this important work with SODA Foundation, and we believe the 2021 Storage and Data Trends Report can advance the work of its community and the broader open source ecosystem and tech community.

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Key Findings from the report include:

  • Storage requirements move from terabytes to petabytes
    • Mainstream annual data growth is between 1-100TB per year as reported in the study. However, 9% of the sample is seeing annual data growth of 1PB or more. This is 10 to 100x greater growth than the mainstream and is likely a harbinger of where many enterprises will find themselves within a few years.
  • Enterprises pivot to cloud-based containerized environments
    • 48% of enterprises are using cloud VMs in production and development environments, while 75% use Kubernetes or a hybrid Kubernetes on-prem and public cloud combination.
  • SDS could revolutionize how we manage data
    • When asked what storage technologies are included in the enterprise’s storage infrastructure, 3 technologies shared a leadership position. File storage (65%), SDS (60%), and public cloud storage (60%) are the storage technologies of choice for most enterprises.
  • Containerized cloud native storage is not without pain points
    • Performance was identified by 49% of end-user enterprises as the number one pain point when using containers and/or cloud native storage. Performance was followed closely by availability at 46%.
  • Open source projects are shaping data and storage infrastructure use
    • 37% of enterprises are engaged with SODA Foundation, the #1 response, while GlusterFS and Alluxio followed.
  • Enterprises fixated on data protection and security
    • Data protection and availability at 61% as well as security and compliance at 57% were the top 2 capabilities identified by end users.

Survey partners include Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), Japan Storage Forum (JDSF), China Open Source Cloud League (COSCL), Open Infrastructure Foundation (OIF), Mulan Open Source Community and Storage Performance Council (SPC).

Storage is one of the most core components of cloud native infrastructure but, historically, persistent storage systems were run outside of cloud native and Kubernetes environments,” said Chris Aniszczyk, CTO, Cloud Native Computing Foundation. “This has changed in recent years as the cloud native storage space has exploded with new tools and industry efforts emerging to enable storage of persistent state in cloud native environments. The Data and Storage Trends Report provides valuable insights to help the ecosystem understand how these tools are being adopted in cloud environments.” 

It’s clear open source is paving the way for innovation in the data and storage space. Now we know how companies are using open source to advance their cloud native and container strategies. The Data and Storage Trends Report from SODA Foundation will be an invaluable resource for months to come,” said Kei Kusunoki, infrastructure engineer, NTT Communications.

The results of the SODA 2021 Data and Storage Trends Report show just how important open infrastructure is to large organizations managing data at petabyte scale. Technologies like containers and SDS are going to lead the way, with open source and open communities being the primary drivers making it happen,” said Allison Price, director of marketing and community, Open Infrastructure Foundation.

Findings from the Data and Storage Trends Report really shine a light on where we can support our members and accelerate technical development to fully take advantage of this data,” said Richelle Ahlvers, SNIA board of directors and secretary. “This is an extremely useful body of work from SODA Foundation and Linux Foundation Research.

SODA Foundation is in a unique position to be able to survey a diverse group of businesses and end users, so this new information from the Data and Storage Trends Report is incredibly powerful,” said Koki Numata, storage architect and KURO-OBI (Black belt) engineer, Yahoo! Japan.

Methodology
The WW survey was conducted by SODA Foundation and the Linux Foundation from April 15 to August 19, 2021. Two hundred forty seven respondents completed the survey. WW, 40% of the sample originated from North America, 25% from Europe, 17% from Latin America, 9% from India, 4% from Japan, 2% from China, and 3% from the rest of world (Middle East, Africa and Australia/Oceania).

Respondents came from organizations of all sizes including 15% from very small organizations (1-99 employees), 36% from small organizations (100-999 employees), 26% from medium organizations (1,000-4,999 employees), and 24% from large organizations (5,000 or more employees).

The distribution of responses by organization type included 40% end users (primarily consumers of IT products and services), 40% IT vendors and services providers, and 20% members of standards organizations, open source organizations, and academia.

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