2012 is quickly shaping up to be an exciting year in a variety of technology verticals. Just last week NVIDIA® announced a new production release of their CUDA computing toolkit, accelerating GPU computing. Meanwhile, everyone is excitedly awaiting the launch of the new Intel products shipping towards the end of Q1.
But of all the areas in tech innovation, storage may be the one to set itself apart this year. Yesterday Computerworld ran a very thorough and informative piece titled “2012: The year storage becomes a celebrity,” in which they laid out some of the things to look forward to in the development of enterprise storage this year.
The Overview
While data storage has always been a necessary building block for technology, it’s rarely garnered as much attention as it has in the past two years. The reason: Corporate and retail consumers are being forced to store greater amounts of data and they need to make that data more useful — and accessible.
Enterprise storage, and storage in general, is one of those things that trends dictate will get increasingly cheaper. That doesn’t always mean that it will become more accessible, as storage needs may outpace dropping costs. However, in general storage has become more and more affordable, making a big difference to smaller and even mid-sized organizations. It’s also something that is shared across all industries almost without exception. Storage is not just an “IT” issue, but rather plays a critical role in healthcare, entertainment, finance, engineering, etc.
And ten years ago, we did not have the wide variety of options we do today…
Last week, LSI 