Hyper convergent infrastructure of Hyper-Converged Infrastructure, HCI market of Russia

Hyper convergence — approach to creation of IT infrastructure which integrates in one building block solution servers, storage systems, network functions and the software which is responsible for creation of a pool of IT resources, their reconfiguring.

Hyper convergence is a same virtualization, not normal storage on SAN technology, and software-defined storage (SDS) is added only to it. We add horizontally scalable storage to virtualization — we receive hyper convergence.

2018

IDC: The volume of the Russian market of hyper convergent solutions — $55.52 million

On October 23, 2019 the IDC company provided data of the first report of an annual research of the Russian market of infrastructure — Russia Hyperconverged Infrastructure 2019-2023 Market Forecast.

In 2018 the volume of the Russian market of hyper convergent solutions was 55.52 million US dollars. Hyper convergent solutions only begin to win attention in the market. Most vendors position these solutions as tasks, effective for rather wide range, – from infrastructure of virtual work places, the organization of development environments and testing before implementation of functionality of analytics in real time and Internet of Things.

The overview of a competitive landscape is presented in the report and recommendations to technology vendors concerning the conditions influencing active application of hyper convergent solutions by customers are made.

The forecast of growth of the market of hyper convergent solutions taking into account the technology, macroeconomic and other factors maintaining positive dynamics or containing growth is also presented in the report. IDC assumes that during the period from 2019 to 2023 inclusive the market of hyper convergent solutions will grow with an annual average speed of 10.2%.

Hyper convergent solutions assume fast providing infrastructure for program implementation of digital transformation and also hardware upgrade taking into account the effective cost of ownership. In the medium term and in process of readiness of technology for placement of applications, crucial for business, growth of the market of hyper convergent solutions will continue. Besides, customers pay attention to advantages of hyper convergent solutions for implementation of infrastructure of a private cloud, emphasizes the leading analyst of IDC Mikhail Lebedev

Research of TAdviser: Perspectives of the Russian market of hyper convergent infrastructure

The market of IT infrastructure promptly changes. As of 2017 the hyper convergent systems already replaced usual servers and storage systems in 20% of the Russian companies. For the next three years of 10% of budgets for servers and DWH will get to producers of hyper convergent solutions. Results of a research of TAdviser "Current trends in the market of hyper convergent infrastructure" are like that.

Rapid growth

The research purpose of TAdviser was to determine the level of distribution of technologies of hyper convergence among the Russian business and state structures and also to estimate the potential of demand for similar solutions in Russia in the short-term period. According to the research, the Russian market of hyper convergent infrastructures (HCI) is for the growth phase. Its amount in 2017, according to TAdviser, was about 1 billion rubles. At the same time IDC predicts growth of global market of hyper convergent infrastructures by 150% a year, and Gartner expects that by 2020 20% of business and critical applications will be postponed for hyper convergent platforms.

The market of HCI (as it is global, and in Russia) will grow due to migration from traditional platforms. In terms of dynamics of size of the market of IT in general it will be possible to speak about cost reallocation for benefit of hyper convergent solutions on article "equipment". In the next three years HCI can already "eat off" up to 10% of costs for servers and DWH.

Until recently the concept of HCI was perceived by customers as insufficiently mature. Its more active promotion was slowed down both conservatism still inherent to large Russian business, and insufficient level of awareness on the existing offers and their opportunities. On the contrary, the main incentives of initiatives in the field of HCI today - interest in migration in a cloud, already reached virtualization maturity and also explicit mismatch of opportunities of the outdate infrastructure to new business challenges. The telecom companies, banks and also the enterprises of oil and gas and industrial branches of the economy become main customers of such solutions.

The number of players in this market grows — generally it is large infrastructure vendors. Among leaders — Dell EMC, NRE Nutanix. Also analytical agencies Gartner and Forrester select Cisco Huawei, Hitachi, Lenovo and NetApp. According to poll of 451 Research, 47.5% of representatives of the American large business noted that they use the HCI solution VMware, 41% — Dell EMC, 24% — Cisco, 17% — HPE and 15% — Nutanix. In Russia own hyper convergent solution is proposed by the company IBS (Scala-R).

New market demands

Hyper convergent solutions are focused on quickly developing or dynamically transformed business, providing it an opportunity quickly "include" and "switch off" necessary IT resources under the changing requirements and increasing performance to necessary level. It allows to implement more quickly the ideas in implementation, so — it is essential to accelerate TTM (Time-to-market) quicker to bring new products to the market. This aspect is key for the majority tsifroviziruyushchikhsya the industries today. Refer a possibility of expense optimization and simplification of upgrade of infrastructures to other significant effects of hyper convergence. In particular, means of virtualization allow to solve a problem of inefficient use of server resources, and transition to the centralized infrastructure and single interfaces increases effective management of computing powers.

According to poll of TAdviser, about 50% of the respondents representing large business and a public sector consider upgradeability of the IT infrastructures today. The performance concern which even more often face in these organizations (80%), including, in a type of obsolescence of earlier purchased equipment (75%) stimulates to it first of all. New requirements to performance dictate also growing needs for advanced analytics, for creation of new business processes and digital platforms (for example, Internet of Things which applications are focused on work in a scalable and flexible cloud environment).

Readiness for changes

21% of the polled organizations already use the hyper convergent systems, another 34% - are familiar with such solutions and are ready to consider their implementation. Already it is impossible to call the term exotic, but the general idea of customers about the related concept comes down mainly to virtualization and a private cloud.

More than a half of respondents of TAdviser consider HCI modern architectural approach. Among the main advantages of use of hyper convergent solutions about a half of respondents specifies simplicity in service (48%), light scalability (46%) and also lower cost, in comparison with traditional approach to creation or upgrade of infrastructure (39%). According to respondents of TAdviser, it is reasonable to consider use of HCI under DBMS (53%), the analytical systems (45%) and also application servers (40%).

More than 70% of respondents confirm readiness to use the Russian IT products, or already implemented them. Among the pacing factors stimulating interest in the Russian products, customers note cost advantages in comparison with foreign solutions, ensuring sanctions stability, import substitution policy fulfillment of requirements, trust in security issues to domestic developments in comparison with western.

The complete version of the research "Current Trends in the Market of Hyper Convergent Infrastructure" can be downloaded here.

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