The document discusses emerging trends in storage architectures and technologies. By 2016, server-based storage solutions will lower hardware costs by 50% due to consolidation. Three of the top seven disk array vendors will exit the hardware business by 2018. New storage architectures are designed for web-scale, multi-tenancy, high access, and resilience needs. Open source software-defined storage solutions like Nutanix and Gluster address these needs through distributed, scalable designs. Emerging workload-based architectures require assessing specific requirements to determine the optimal solution.