1. Overall Storage Sales To Fall

Storage revenue started to show a consistent downward trend in 2016 despite the surge in sales of all-flash storage solutions, according to IDC and other research firms. That trend will continue in 2017. Watch for customers to increasingly move away from disk-based or even hybrid disk-flash storage toward the cloud and all-flash storage solutions.

Predicting an overall drop in storage sales is pretty easy. It is also a foundation to keep in mind as we look at the other key trends that can be expected in 2017.