How Virtualization Supports Healthcare Data Storage Needs

Entities need to consider how to best address future healthcare data storage needs as the amount of data collected by digital devices continues to grow exponentially. Organizations have several options including public and private cloud storage. However software-defined storage (SDS) has emerged as another way to store vast amounts of data using virtualization. Research and Markets predicted the SDS market will reach $42 billion by 2023, up from $4 billion in 2017, and grow at a CAGR of 39 percent in that time. The lack of workforce available to accommodate for the growth of traditional on-premises data centers is one of the main drivers for virtualized storage techniques. Virtualization scales back the amount of physical space needed to store data, meaning that organizations don’t need to hire additional staff. SDS is one of the architectural components that typically makes up a software-defined data center (SDDC). The other components include computer virtualization such as workspace-as-a-service and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and also software-defined networking.