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Editorial Type: Comment     Date: 11-2015    Views: 1059   





As this is our last edition of the year, we have taken the chance to ask a selection of movers and shakers from the industry to share their thoughts and predictions for 2016, and it has been fascinating to see how many times the same ideas and trends come up - and at the same time, how occasionally something completely off the wall is suggested

Some predict growth for all-flash. Some believe all-flash is already on their way out, such as Fujitsu's David Histon: "All Flash Arrays are quickly giving way to the flexibility and increased consolidation benefits of Hybrid Arrays. This allows customers the flexibility and cost savings of being able to manage and configure all their storage performance requirements (high to low) from a single storage array. This can help customers meet the traditionally opposing demands from the business of increasing agility and reducing cost."

Elsewhere in the piece commentators have their say on the broader industry. As Tintri's Kieran Harty says: "There will be blood - 2016 will be marked by consolidation and storage startups exiting the market: the Dell/EMC acquisition is merely the starting point. Other large, established storage companies will most certainly feel the pressure this year, which will lead them to 1, make acquisitions, or 2, go private. As for the next gen storage vendors, given the billions invested in storage startups, the companies with less than a few hundred million in funding won't be able to scale fast enough to survive. This shakeout started in 2015 - it's going to get messier in 2016."

We take a close look at the recent Dell/EMC announcements in a separate analysis piece. Tony Byrne of Real Story Group argues that the deal's much-vaunted 'synergy' is not that big a deal in the modern IT world: "I don't see a future where customers gain anything from procuring Dell servers and EMC storage from the same vendor. EMC and Dell have independently failed to effectively bundle their manifold offerings already; what makes them think they would be more successful together?"

We can only wait and see - but it could turn out to be a hugely expensive gamble on the part of the world's biggest IT names.

by David Tyler
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