Top 10 Storage Stories Of 2023
ComputerWeekly, Thursday, December 21,2023
In this 2023 review, we consider if flash will thrash disk, what the Toyota outage shows about capacity planning, how to achieve green storage, the backup and compliance risks of AI, the lowdown on DPUs, and more
Will flash kill spinning disk in the next five years? One notable storage player believes so, but plenty of voices argue there is life in the hard disk drive (HDD) yet. Meanwhile, quad-level cell (QLC) flash went mainstream with benefits in cost and capacity.
Toyota suffered an outage for 36 hours at 14 car plants. We looked at possible causes in database capacity planning. Meanwhile, rapidly rising energy costs highlighted the need for green storage, but also the obstacles to achieve it.
Artificial intelligence (AI) was a big story in 2023, so we looked at the data protection and compliance risks it potentially brings with it. And with it came the rise to prominence of the data processing unit (DPU), a hardware offload that we examined in detail.
All these stories and more form Computer Weekly's top 10 stories on storage in 2023.