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deployment models for your data will
expand with an increasing mix of on-
prem, SaaS, IaaS, managed clouds and
private clouds.
Over time, we expect more of the
workload to shift off-premises, but this
transition will take place over years, and
we believe that it is important to be ready
to meet this new reality today.
• Flash memory supply shortages, and
prices, will improve in 2019
According to a report by Gartner in
October this year, flash memory supply is
expected to revert to a modest shortage
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in mid-2019, with prices expected to
stabilise largely due to the ramping of
Chinese memory production.
Greater supply and improved pricing will
result in greater use of flash deployment
in the operational recovery tier, which
typically hosts the most recent 14 days
of backup and replica data. We see
this greater flash capacity leading to
broader usage of instant mounting of
backed up machine images (or copy
data management).
Systems that offer copy data management
capability will be able to deliver value
beyond availability, along with better
business outcomes. Example use cases for
leveraging backup and replica data include
DevOps, DevSecOps and DevTest, patch
testing, analytics and reporting.
• Predictive analytics will become
mainstream and ubiquitous
The predictive analytics market is
forecast to reach $12.41 billion by 2022,
marking a 272% increase from 2017, at
a CAGR of 22.1%. Predictive analytics
based on telemetry data, essentially
Machine Learning (ML) driven guidance
and recommendations is one of the
categories that is most likely to become
mainstream and ubiquitous.
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