Opinion of Storage Vendors on 2021

Like every year, StorageNewsletter.com asked vendors to share what they consider significant during the past year. This year, 27 companies have replied and shared their opinions. Here are analyzed these results to found the following major topics:

1. Without any surprise, 2021 was the year of ransomware. Therefore all aspects of cybersecurity are by far #1 even from storage vendors,
2. Thus cloud arrives #2 in various flavors (multi, hybrid, private, edge, SaaS and operating model),
3. Data protection in all dimensions,
4. and then at the same level: NVMe (oF), PCIe, Container/Kubernetes and ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance).

You can download the full report here.

Tomorrow we’ll publish predictions of 54 vendors for 2022 and you’ll be able to measure the trajectory of some key topics.