What does 2022 hold for the data storage industry? Signs of what is to come have been emerging. The following are five predictions about the data storage market, grounded in understanding the direction where the market is going. They involve AI, cyber resilience, supercharged application, workload performance and availability, and reduction of OPEX and CAPEX.
Trend #1: Emphasizing data and cyber resilience as a critical component of cybersecurity strategy
The threat of cyber attacks has reached such a feverish pitch that 66% of Fortune 500 CEOs named it their #1 business threat in the Fortune 500 CEO survey in mid-2021. Similarly, in a KPMG CEO survey in March 2021, CEOs also noted cybersecurity was their #1 concern.