The Future Of Storage Administration: 4 Key Questions Answered
Search Storage, Monday, August 28,2023
What are the best moves a storage professional can make? Learn about the skills, technologies and strategies to focus on now for the most payback in the future.
Enterprise storage is undergoing massive changes, and those changes include the roles of the storage administrator and related jobs.
Cloud storage remains a popular choice, even as organizations repatriate some workloads to the data center. That, in tandem with the growing role of automation in storage, is forcing admins to learn new skills.
Yet, technology is changing in other ways that bode well for the future of the storage administrator. Hyperconverged systems, faster SSD appliances and emerging technologies, such as storage class memory, composable infrastructure and computational storage, all must be deployed, managed and updated by IT pros with extensive storage knowledge. In addition, anything data-related is in demand.