YEAR 2010 is predicted to be the focus of enterprise storage technologies in anticipation of a growth spurt that makes the data accumulate without incurring high cost.

To answer the challenge, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) storage presents 10 of his investment priorities in 2010. HDS management assess the data center virtualization, cloud storage, and data security become the main agenda of companies in Indonesia. Country Manager, Hitachi Data Systems Indonesia Sunadi Sun said the company has continued to support its competitive advantage through data center virtualization, storage "cloud", and data security.

"The role of Hitachi Data Systems helps its customers build cost-effective storage solutions and sustainable so that it can support the current business year, also expects challenges ahead," he said.

Investment priorities HDS storage is one of them is data center virtualization. Virtualization technology is a prerequisite for building a data center a dynamic future. During 2009, there is a tendency of increasing the number of nodes (scale-out) low-cost modular storage technology such as Ethernet and RapidIO switches.

However, call Ming, this method has a weakness, namely the resources on the node could not be added (scale-up). Therefore, in 2010, more storage systems that can do scale out and scale-up as well as required capacity and performance. "In this way, companies can meet the needs of network, processor, and virtual operating systems such as VMware and Hyper V is faster," said Sun

Cloud Storage. The term cloud computing is often a metaphor referring to the Internet.

In a storage "cloud", some storage servers are "clouds" in order to hide the complexity of the IT infrastructure behind it. Effects, such as storage services provided by the scheme "pay according to usage." "Hitachi saw understanding cloud computing will continue to increase in 2010 with a focus on creating 'clouds' private and service providers 'cloud'. Along with that, the adoption of cloud storage will be driven technological advances that enable the key functions, such as security, the ability to serve multiple users at once, and the payment model, "he explained.

Then, there are automated tiered storage. She explained, more and more IT organizations to automate tiered storage management (Tiered-storage) based policies to achieve economic efficiencies while still meeting the target level of business availability. Increased adoption of Dynamic (thin) provisioning also be the focus. Thin provisioning is the ability to provide computing resources-storage-easy, concise, and relevant. Thin provisioning is a key dynamic to the ability to reduce operating costs.

Thin provisioning can eliminate the waste of unused storage space, reduce the cost of removal and doubling the volume-volume storage that "fat" by eliminating unused capacity; restore up to 40 percent or more unused capacity, and reduce procurement time storage of the count of hours to minutes . With these capabilities, Hitachi estimate the dynamic technology (thin) provisioning will be a priority userpada 2010.

This year, the IT projects "green" predicted to be increasingly prevalent as IT managers begin to realize that this kind of project has the support of the company. Research firm IDC estimates that the content data will grow most rapidly with Raihan 121 percent annually. Thus, the platform should be able to develop content to tens of petabytes and able to handle various data formats.

Hitachi Content Archive Platform estimates that demand will increase in 2010. Safety factor shall also be the focus. IT managers are constantly struggling to balance security risks by providing the best infrastructure is measured by throughput, availability, scalability, cost and complexity. In the modern IT organization, he said, the procurement of new applications or SAN performance reporting is managed through a remote managed services.

During this time, the cost of flash-based drives are considered not economical compared to traditional hard drives, although the performance is better. Hitachi estimates that more and more flash-based technology has to offer in a single package solution for customers. Final focus, convergence in the Data Center Ethernet (FCOE / DCIB). Hitachi Data Systems switches on the side of predicting the adoption of storage will increase as the emergence of industry standards that enable multipathing and decrease the network load.

In 2010, there will be substantial investments in infrastructure, fiber channel (FC) up to 8 Gbps FC. Level of business disruption from the transition to 8 Gbps FC not from the transition to 10 Gbps FCoE, so the adoption of FCoE for storage may take longer.