Beyond petabytes: Storage trends that will decide who wins 2026?

With many tech interventions coming its way, here’s a look at emerging storage trends that will shape businesses across industry verticals. 

A defining moment is unfolding inside modern enterprises with increasing frequency. While data-driven decisions are proving really helpful, their exponentially rising volumes are sparking discussions about storage capacities. The most critical questions that every C-suite executive faces today are where this data will live and how it will be operationalised. Storage is no longer a peripheral concern; rather, it has become the structural backbone that determines whether AI initiatives take flight or collapse under their own momentum. 

All-flash mandate

The industry’s all-flash evolution reflects a strategic shift in the storage dimension. Flash storage, once perceived as high-performance luxury, is now the default expectation. Its affordability has broadened, and it has become operationally superior at nearly every layer of the stack ...