Nexenta's Evan Powell offers 10 open storage predictions for 2012 and, in a commendable mood of candor, grades himself on predictions for 2011. One A+ mark involves his prediction that growth and demand for storage capacity would be exponential. He sees the same for 2012. Powell offers his A+ view that hardware commoditization will play an ever bigger role and awards an A+ for the prediction that sales in the server channel will increase, as he expects them to do in 2012. One last A+, and that is for predicting that Nexenta is the fastest growing storage company ever.
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Reporting from the recent OpenStorage Summit, 451 Group analyst Dave Simpson notes a healthy degree of interest in open source alternatives to traditional storage systems. The economies that open source storage technologies such as Nexenta offer have apparently proven sufficiently compelling that Korea Telecom, for example, Asia's largest public cloud provider, has implemented those technologies and offers its services to customers at considerably reduced rates. Simpson also mentions new products from both Nexenta and Symantec, which have attracted considerable interest in the industry. These include NexentaStor 3.1.2 and Symantec's OpenStorage APIs.
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A new three-day course introduces registrants to the Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure software technology and software administration. In addition to learning about installing Oracle VDI Software, students are also introduced to the architectural details of the software, resulting in a foundation to understand the individual features introduced in subsequent modules. Through a combination of instructor-led lectures and hands-on labs, students will learn about the following Oracle VDI components and features:
Oracle VM VirtualBox and other desktop providers
LDAP and Microsoft Active Directory directory server integration
Open Storage platform for the back-end storage of user desktops
Sun Ray Software (SRS) and Oracle Secure Global Desktop (SGD) for the access of user desktops
The Queensland Brain Institute at the University of Queensland has saved AU$100,000 by adopting a scalable Sun Open Storage system with more than one PB of data capacity. The elements of this solution include the Sun Fire X4200 M2 Server, the Sun Fire X2200 M2 Server, the Sun StorageTek 6140 Array, and the Sun StorageTek SL500 Modular Library System, all of which will enable the institute to carry out its mission of exploring a wide range of neuroscience interests. With this implementation the institute saved more than AU$100,000 in licensing costs while reducing cost per TB by 65% and eliminating silent data corruption.
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The face of storage is changing, and Nexenta's Evan Powell highlights the top 10 drivers of the storage industry in 2011: Part 1 in a recent blog. The first five are:
Capacity demands will continue their exponential rate of growth
IT vendors will appreciate more profit from storage than any other segment
Hardware commoditization (read Nexenta, Supermicro, other OpenStorage solutions) will leave proprietary solutions in the dust
Silent data corruption will grow apace with capacity and users will increasingly turn to solutions like ZFS to checksum everything in order to maintain file integrity.
Developers, impatient with the snail's pace response of corporate IT to their need for SAN and NAS will turn to solutions such as NexentaStor and other open storage solutions to meet those needs. And then there's the cloud. Developers are learning to make an end run around corporate priorities.
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