The Ultimate Guide To C1000-044 IBM API Connect 2018.x Solution Implementation
The Ultimate Guide To C1000-044 IBM API Connect 2018.x Solution Implementation
We believe AWS storage revenue will surpass $11 billion in 2022 and continue to outpace on-premises
storage growth by more than 1,000 basis points for the next three to four years. At its third annual Storage
Day event on Sept. 2, AWS signaled a continued drive to think differently about data storage and
transform the way customers migrate, manage and add value to their data over the next decade.
In this Breaking Analysis we’ll give you a brief overview of what we learned at AWS Storage Day, share
our assessment of the big announcement of the day – a deal with NetApp Inc. to run its full ONTAP stack
natively in the cloud as a managed service – and share some new data on how we see the market
evolving. In addition, we’ll share the perspective of AWS executives on the giant cloud company’s
storage strategy, how it thinks about hybrid and where it fits into the emerging data mesh conversation.
Now customers can get access to a fully functional NetApp stack with services around data reduction,
snaps, clones, multiprotocol support, replication and all the services ONTAP delivers, in the cloud as a
managed service through the AWS console.
Chris Mellor posted a more in-depth assessment of the features and pricing on his blog if you’d like more
detail.
Our estimate is that 80% of the data on-prem is stored in file format. We all know about S3 object
storage, but the biggest market opportunity for AWS from a capacity standpoint is file storage. In some
respects, this announcement reminds us of the VMware Cloud on AWS deal but applied to storage. It’s an
excellent example of a legacy on-prem company leaning into the cloud and taking advantage of the
massive capital spending buildout that AWS and the other big hyperscalers have “gifted” to the industry.
NetApp’s Anthony Lye told us this is bigger than the AWS-VMware deal. We’ll come back to that in a
moment.
AWS announced improvements to tiering including EFS Intelligent Tiering to cost optimize file storage.
It also announced S3 tiering features where it will no longer charge for the monitoring and automation of
small objects of less than 128K.
Remember AWS years ago hired a bunch of EMC engineers and those guys built a lot of tiering
functionality into their boxes. We’ll come back to that later in this episode.
In addition, AWS announced backup monitoring tools to ensure backups are in compliance with
regulations and corporate edicts. This frankly is table stakes and about time.
AWS also made a number of other announcements, including direct block storage application
programming interfaces to enable 64-terabyte snaps from any block storage device, including on-prem
storage with recovery to EBS Io2 block volumes. The company also announced simplified data migration
tools and what it calls Managed Workflows to automate pre-processing of data.
The big picture: Hyperscalers account for a quarter of the storage market
The firehose of announcements is de rigueur for Amazonians at an event like this. But below we take a
look at the broader picture of what’s happening in the storage business.