This piece will focus on digital storage systems projections for 2017. Let’s look at expectations for the growth of private and public cloud storage, container technology, Ethernet storage networking and where flash memory, hard disk drives and magnetic tape will be used in enterprise storage. Although hard disk drives will still contain the bulk of enterprise storage, high performance storage will increasingly be based upon flash memory. Unfortunately the higher price of flash memory through much of 2017 will have some impact on the use of flash for less performance-based application. These higher prices are a result of the transition of flash memory from planar to 3D flash as well as the increasing demand for flash memory in ever-higher capacity Apple and Android phones and tablets.

Source: Forbes January 13, 2017 05:49 UTC