Steven Hill is a Senior Research Analyst of Applied Infrastructure and Storage Technologies at 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. He covers the latest generation of software-defined systems, hybrid cloud storage, unstructured data management and business continuity/disaster recovery solutions for enterprise customers. Prior to joining 451 Research, Steven was a Senior Analyst of Data Center Solutions for Current Analysis, with a specific focus on converged infrastructure and hybrid cloud technologies. For the decade prior to joining Current Analysis, Steven was an independent speaker, writer and analyst on datacenter technologies, and served as the Technology Editor of Storage and Servers for Network Computing Magazine. He has authored numerous articles on enterprise-class computing systems and spoken worldwide as an early advocate of server virtualization, converged systems, cloud delivery, network convergence and evolutionary storage technologies.
The pandemic bolstered the shift toward cloud computing in 2020. But it did little to improve exits for companies that sell the software for managing, monitoring and operating cloud and other IT environments. Spending on acquisitions of infrastructure management vendors dropped to its lowest annual total in more than a decade. Still, there's reason to anticipate higher spending in 2021.
The acquirer has been expanding its software-defined storage offerings beyond its venerable SANsymphony roots, first with the introduction in November 2019 of its own vFiLO data platform for managing files and objects, and now with the purchase of pioneering object storage vendor Caringo.
The year ahead will see an acceleration of digital transformation initiatives that support business outcomes of agility, resilience and cost containment. The transition to hybrid, multicloud IT infrastructures supported by cloud-native application development tools and practices will only accelerate, as we will still have to operate under pandemic conditions for a minimum of several months into 2021.
The company has unveiled a DR service that uses AWS S3 as the on-demand repository for VM replicas. Based on technology obtained via its acquisition of Datrium in July, the new managed service lowers the cost basis for DR and is expected to increase its prevalence as a key use case for VMware Cloud on AWS adoption.
Hybrid technology offers a flexible model that frees business IT from the limitations of on-premises infrastructure. But that also brings new challenges for dealing with complexity, and the management challenges of workloads and data outside the datacenter. Cohesity and AWS believe their DMaaS offering can be the right tool to mitigate much of that complexity.
The NVMe approach to flash storage has been making extensive headway for extremely high-performance block applications across the enterprise storage landscape. The recently ratified NVMe-KV command set and matching API looks to combine the massive performance of NVMe devices with the efficiency of key-value-native data storage.
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