FEATURE : CLOUD SOLUTIONS data center . For example , AWS already reached 65 % renewable energy across the business in 2020 and plans to reach 100 % by 2025 . It has also committed to achieve net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 ; a full 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement .”
Betsy Doughty , Vice President of Corporate Marketing , Spectra Logic
Connectivity and performance
For Tim Klein , CEO , ATTO Technology , connectivity and speed are closely linked . “ With no new , faster storage media on the immediate horizon , we are likely to see a continued emphasis on increasing the speed and performance of storage connectivity . New storage connectivity technologies like NVMe , RDMA , PCIe 4.0 and Gen7 Fiber Channel , have opened up many paths of opportunity for vendors and developers in 2022 .”
Modern applications generate and consume vast volumes of data . “ The explosion of data , driven by demanding services and applications such as AI , predictive analytics or smart detection , is putting great pressure on cloud and Edge data center networking and storage architectures ,” said Eric Baissus , CEO , Kalray . “ In this context , flash , NVM / NVMe-oF and data processing unit technologies are providing the answer to the challenges raised by the deployment of such data-intensive applications .”
All-flash is the future for Storbyte ’ s Steven Groenke : “ The enterprise flash storage industry will continue to grow in 2022 . Beyond performance advantages , flash reduces power consumption costs in data centers . The price of SSDs continues to decline , as the technology becomes more reliable and drive capacities expand . By contrast , the HDD market share has shrunk from its US $ 34 billion peak in 2014 and is expected to plummet to US $ 12 billion in 2022 .”
Against the backdrop of the complexities and uncertainties of our current times , it will be interesting over time to revisit these predictions , especially post-pandemic . p
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