Seven Predictions Of Storage Trends In 2024
SearchStorage, Tuesday, December 5,2023
Seven storage trends rise to the top for 2024, spanning cybersecurity, hybrid cloud storage, green IT, customer experience, and containerized applications, while also providing insights on how to free up financial and operational resources to put into AI and other IT projects and how to address the IT skills gap.
Trend #1: Triple play of cyber resiliency, detection, and recovery to create an overall corporate cybersecurity strategy
The convergence of cyber resilience, detection, and recovery on a single storage platform is fueling a trend for 2024 around higher levels of cybersecurity for enterprise storage. Reliance solely on backup is no longer enough to secure storage systems. Primary storage has become a main target of cybercriminals for the most insidious and hard-to-detect ransomware and malware attacks that wreak costly havoc on enterprises.