By: Glenn Laga, Founder & President, Guardian Data Destruction Guardian Data Destruction employees frequently refer to themselves as “the undertakers of the IT world.” We know that IT and data storage trends are wagging our tail; as industry reports and surveys are released, we watch carefully to see how our core services: secure data destruction, data center services and secure packing and logistics are affected. A snapshot of industry trends and predictions from data authorities It’s no surprise that data and therefore data storage is growing. The astonishment is the rate. Then we extract to understand the impact on secure data destruction and sanitization, the complexity of the networks and data centers as they configure and reconfigure. Don’t forget the impact of COVID on workplace architecture. Some industry forecasts and facts that we are watching as Guardian plans for the next five to ten years of VAR, ITAD, MSP and reseller services: From Storagenewsletter.com and Trendfocus, Inc. 67 Million HDDs Expected to Ship in 2Q21 With All Global Figures Up From the Seagate Technology “Rethink Data” Report:
From the Gartner Top Security and Risk Trends for 2021 Report
From IDC’s Global Datasphere Forecast
From IDG’s CIO Pandemic Business Impact Survey, 2020 (for Information Technology Decision Makers — ITDMs)
The data and security trends takeaway In a nutshell: how does data storage affect your business model? Understanding future IT equipment and data security needs are essential for creating services for our ITADs, VARs MSPs and resellers to support their success as suppliers and solution experts. Data destruction, typically the end-of-the-line, end-of-life security precaution, will likely be performed multiple times on the same hard drive or equipment due to extended life cycles, changing hands and secondary markets..And, the sales of so many more hard drives means more data destruction. Solid state drives and nano-technology call for improved and varied methods of secure sanitization. Distributed networks and smart devices will result in broader asset disposition plans to capture data in previously invisible equipment. Reduced personnel (or “lights out”) for data centers means remote and outsourced services will be needed. Updated workplace models will likely produce flexible or reconfigured data storage architectures. Those in turn will increase outsourced, knowledgeable data center services such as decommissioning, equipment migration and remote data erasure. What we do know Guardian Data Destruction is evolving as IT and data storage trends evolve. What doesn’t change is our commitment to the security of data handling whether it’s a data center, data destruction or custom services. Our focus on service, process and compliance is the framework that we adhere to as the nation’s data storage and IT equipment needs morph. As our customers embrace the new, we follow with services that continue to securely shred and sanitize the discarded and relocate and migrate the existing. As your needs or your customers’ needs are changing, what services do you see emerging? Or disappearing? Do you wonder how your company will keep up? Are your service partners working with you to understand your client challenges and how to provide exceptional and profitable solutions? If you’re looking for a partner to keep you in the forefront, talk to Guardian. Our flexible solutions and experience ensure that data challenges don’t become data headaches.
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