| | February 20156CIOReviewCopyright © 2015 CIOReview, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or part of any text, photography or illustrations without written permission from the publisher is prohibited. The publisher assumes no responsibility for unsolicited manuscripts, photographs or illustrations. Views and opinions expressed in this publication are not necessarily those of the magazine and accordingly, no liability is assumed by the publisher thereof.CIOReviewFEBRUARY- 2015CIOReview's circulation is audited and certified by BPA International (Audit Pending). Mailing AddressCIOReview44790 S. Grimmer Blvd Suite 202, Fremont, CA 94538T:510.402.1463, F:510-894-8405 February 2015, Volume 4-2 Published by CIOReview To subscribe to CIOReviewVisit www.cioreview.com Editor-in-Chief Pradeep ShankarEditorial StaffSalesAllwyn JoeAlex D'SouzaAnitha TSAva GarciaJoe PhilipJoshua ParkerSonia SacharSowmya M JambarT:510.565.7627 VisualizersStephen ThomasAbhishek GuptaStorage SpecialCIOReviewMikemike@cioreview.com Mark Henrymark@cioreview.com Kate Andersonkate@cioreview.comTony Fernandes2014 was a phenomenal year for the enterprise storage industry. With com-panies capturing more and richer data types--everything from video to ge-olocation information--storage needs have never been greater. The storage capacity that companies are managing today is growing at double-digit rates.We're seeing strong advances in hardware, particularly in solid-state technol-ogy, where flash memory is becoming faster and less pricey. Flash is transforming the server and storage industry, penetrating the data center in all applications and all tiers. Flash caches, solid-state drives and all-solid-state systems are pervading all levels of enterprise storage, from disk mechanisms and server-based caches to standalone arrays. More and more vendors are delivering flash-based systems to meet their customer demands. This year we expect solid-state adoption to further accelerate and we are go-ing to see more use cases for flash emerge across new industries. Also fueling growth will be rapid and relentless improvements in solid-state technology. We will see new applications designed to capitalize out the potential of flash.Traditional corporate approaches to storage is changing. Solid-state disks, open source software, industry standard components, cloud storage and integrat-ed systems have changed the way customers buy and use storage. As the cost of housing data has been growing exponentially, an increasing number of tradi-tionally shy enterprise customers are opening up to the possibility of weaving in new technologies around the edges, especially if such technologies offer the real promise of improved enterprise data management. Companies are also looking at storage hypervisors, software-defined storage and cloud services to optimize their deployment and management of storage for virtual workloads and networks.Enterprises have started using cloud-based storage extensively. Some enter-prises are avoiding purchases of controller-based storage systems altogether, turn-ing instead to service providers such as Amazon and Microsoft that offer storage through cloud-based services. Such services are becoming increasingly accept-able as alternatives to premises-based storage.While the density of storage media continues to increase at exponential rates, managing all of this data is indeed a big storage challenge IT pros face. There are plethora of storage solutions in the marketplace to address the new paradigm. Our editorial team evaluated several of these companies to present you the 20 most promising storage solution providers. We believe this information will help you, while you get prepared for radical changes in the existing infrastructure of your organization. Please let us know your thoughts on how enterprise storage infrastructure will change in the coming years,Pradeep ShankarEditor-in-Chiefeditor@cioreview.comEditorialSolid State Takes Hold
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