As we prepare to leave the year 2022 behind, major changes seen around the world are expected to accelerate the trends that drive IT forward in the coming year. Dell Technologies Senior Solution Architect Ergün Çelik talked about the trends that will shape IT.
Stating that Information Technologies continues to adapt to trends such as multi-cloud, massive unstructured data growth and the use of models as a service, Dell Technologies Senior Solution Architect Ergün Çelik said, “As organizations continue to benefit from both cloud and on-premises infrastructure and services, they need to protect their data and Decision makers who want to offer a safe environment will focus on technology solutions that give more confidence in the coming period. It needs to be extended to the edge, where the field of protection will continue to increase with new technology trends and where data security and data protection is particularly difficult to provide. At the same time, the shift towards containerized workloads is accelerating. Enterprise storage and data protection capabilities for these workloads are must-haves for organizations. A related development is the increase in interest in software-defined storage. “This is linked to the fundamental change in NVMe-over-TCP storage access that delivers higher performance levels for all workloads.”
Dell Technologies Senior Solution Architect Çelik explained the trends that are expected to move IT forward in the next year as follows:
“Data Protection”
It is a well-known fact that cyber-attacks can target businesses at any time, considering the fact that highly experienced and malicious actors can appear in every corner. So now is the time to take proactive steps to protect businesses against cyber-attackers and make them robust. Advanced data protection solutions are one of the tools that enable fast recovery from ransomware attacks.
“The need for Air-gapped Insulated Cyber Vaults”
Businesses will continue to use high-security cyber vaults, or in other words, environments that are closed to large networks and therefore more protected against attacks. These systems offer a highly reliable backup site that enables rapid restoration of business processes, data, and applications should a ransomware attack occur. They combine this with active defense of data storage, rapid detection of intrusions, and proactive response/response planning to ensure business continuity and privacy of personal data.
As more and more organizations adopt multi-cloud approaches to data storage, we will see them remove critical data from the attack surface by physically and logically isolating access to public clouds through cyber environments that offer a secure, automated, operational air gap. A cybersecurity survey by Accenture found that 81% of Information Security Executives (CISOs) agreed that “being one step ahead of attackers requires constant warfare and the cost is unsustainable.”
“Data protection at the edge”
Data is increasingly decentralized. According to Gartner, 75% of enterprise-generated data will be created and stored outside of a traditional data center or cloud by 2025. A small part of this data is produced by humans. The majority are generated by machines, sensors, and cameras, and are often not brought to data centers or the cloud. In the coming year, it will be seen that businesses will look for holistic ways to secure their data generated in the infrastructure layer at the edge.
Organizations are increasingly turning to the cloud and IT solutions to manage both their data centers and endpoints. Again in the coming year, we will see customers increase the use of secure backup solutions to protect data created at the edge, both at the endpoints and in the data centers. It will also look for ways to extend data security to endpoints and eliminate vulnerability to network intrusions at endpoints.
“Remote workforce”
Over the last few years, we've made a massive shift towards a remote working model. Many organizations have thousands of employees working remotely with network access. As these organizations continue to adapt to growing security concerns in hybrid work environments, Dell's latest research reveals that 74% of businesses agree that working remotely is causing an increase in data loss due to cyber threats. The next year will also see organizations look for ways to extend and enable data security to remote workers.
“As a Service (As-a-Service)”
Organizations; will continue to move workloads, including everything from application hosting services to basic computing and storage infrastructure, to models that can be delivered “as-a-service”. While the security requirements for this type of infrastructure are as important as the traditionally installed, managed and used infrastructure, the additional complexities brought about by the co-location of the infrastructure are among the topics that need to be resolved.
Other trends
“Adoption of the multicloud”
Organizations will continue to adopt the multicloud model in the coming period. As they will want to move more and more applications to the public cloud, they will also need enterprise solutions and services integrated with on-premises infrastructures for their workloads. A recent Forrester study found that 83% of organizations are adopting a multicloud approach or are planning to do so in the next 12 months. This is a hybrid model formation; they want the ability to move between cloud solutions and on-premises infrastructure has become a requirement.
Unstructured data growth
Incredible growth in unstructured data continues unabated, with a combination of rich content such as social media, email, IoT data, backups, and audio & video files. Managing this data will become more difficult and complex over time. Organizations; will need solutions spanning edge, core and cloud locations to help them analyze, archive and manage.
A study by IDC reveals that the most important driver for managing unstructured data growth is the need for flexibility. In 2022 and beyond, we will continue to see organizations adopt flexible storage systems to easily support demanding new workloads using AI/ML/DL alongside traditional use cases such as file consolidation and archive. Key requirements for flexibility outlined in the report included multimedia support, non-disruptive scalability, ease of public cloud integration, multiple access methods, and availability of different deployment models.
“Containerized workloads and NVMe”
Organizations' interest in containerized workloads continues to grow, as does the need for enterprise storage and data protection capabilities, as these environments now run more critical workloads. On the software innovation side, more organizations will be adopting software-defined storage. It will also see storage hardware innovation begin to evolve into NVMe-over-Fabrics to deliver higher performance for medium and high-end workloads.
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