Perhaps the most valuable asset for modern companies is its data. As a result, keeping current with the new technologies for backing up and storing data is crucial for the great majority of enterprises. The following will discuss several data backup and storage developments for 2018.

Cloud Storage

Attaining prominence as a solution, cloud storage is being used for a growing variety of roles by businesses. This trend for 2018 continues with more businesses using archiving, backup, and disaster recovery cloud solutions. Despite the technology’s rapid growth, less than 10% of companies currently host at least 75% of their data in the cloud.

Improved Security

Improving data security is the top goal of many companies, driving their decisions on IT outlay for this year. An Interop survey shows that implementing encryption is a data security trend that will continue growing throughout 2018. Almost 40% of enterprises have budgeted for encryption investments in their IT environments this year.

More Investment

A study found that about 50% of enterprises planned to invest more on data storage in 2018. More than a fifth of the companies intend to purchase storage hardware within a year. One in ten has budgeted for acquiring software-defined storage over the same period.

SDS (Software-Defined Storage)

Storage virtualization or software-defined storage is gradually gaining acceptance. SDS is a program that manages data storage resources and functionality without any dependencies on underlying storage hardware. A study found that almost 40% of companies have a portion or the entirety of their data storage software-defined. Nearly a third stated that they are exploring the notion of integrating the technology in 2018. Enterprises have found software defined storage to have a number of use cases for general database management and backup.

SSDs (Solid State Drives)

Companies are ramping up the purchase and integration of SSDs. As solid state drives decrease in price and become more commonplace, enterprises are becoming more aware regarding their technological advantages that boost a computer’s performance, especially in terms of processing speed.

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