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2021

How data storage will change from 2022

Abandoning a centralized, Data Storage fundamentally new, algorithms enciphering scalable storage system is only part of the trends that will be relevant in the near future. Seagate December 1, 2021 shared his forecasts for 2022 based on a study of the existing market.

The main "trendmaker" in the field of data storage remains growing information flows.

Several factors led to such a significant increase in the amount of information. Firstly, the active use of artificial intelligence systems, which requires processing the maximum possible amount of data for training. Secondly, the use of smart technology both in production and in the private sector. Billions of IoT devices give out a huge amount of information, which also needs to be processed as quickly as possible - otherwise it will be irrelevant.

A research machine that collects information for training autonomous driving systems records up to 150 TB of information per day. And when the cars become completely unmanned (reaching the fifth level of autonomy), each will begin to issue about 32 TB of information per day. The average factory that uses artificial intelligence equipment will generate 5 PB (5 million GB) of data per week.

The growth of information processing volumes and requirements poses new challenges to storage manufacturers and users.

The capacity of non-networks clearly does not keep pace with the growth in the rate of information production. In this situation, the only adequate way out is to use decentralized networks. They should become the basis of the Internet of the future - the so-called Web 3.0.

Decentralized Internet resembles torrents. This will not only increase the speed of data exchange (with a centralized system, it is strongly dependent on the load of this very center), but also be more independent of the problems of specific providers.

The traditional storage scheme uses a directory tree. Up to a certain point, this did not pose a particular problem and made it easy to systematize information. But with the active growth of this information, objective repositories that do not have a hierarchical structure have become more preferable. One of the main advantages of such storage is the simplicity of scalability. Their capacity can be easily increased without having to assign partition values to the data.

Another significant bonus is high access speed. As the high speed of information exchange becomes the basis for smart technology solutions, the number of object repositories in enterprises will actively grow.

The imminent emergence of quantum computers is forcing us to look for new ways to protect information. The development of new mechanisms for post-quantum cryptography is already actively underway: standards are expected to be ready by 2024. If we rely on the current pace of technology development, quantum computers will become relevant by 2026, so that at least a couple of years will remain to test and improve new algorithms.

High speeds of individual computer components data centers and often are limited by interface capabilities. A good example is the interaction of the central processor with the graphical, as well as memory elements. In order to exchange information without delays with the maximum possible speed for a particular configuration, new interfaces are needed: high-speed and universal. In 2020, CXL introduced the open Compute Express Link standard based on PCIe 5.0, which will provide direct access to RAM for the processor and graphics accelerator. And in 2021, the production of memory expansion modules with the CXL interface has already begun.

NVMe-enabled hard drives have also been demonstrated. This solution was a response to the gradually aging SATA and SAS standards. Hard drives, although inferior in speed to solid-state drives, still remain relevant due to the low cost of a storage unit. Support for NVMe greatly enhances their use in computers and information centers.

The volume of physical data transportation will grow along with the growth of the total amount of information. Storage manufacturers already offer a sufficient number of high-capacity drives, from mobile to modular data center solutions.

By 2025, global data will exceed 175 ZB

According to the IDC Data Age 2025: The Digitization of the World from Edge to Core report, prepared jointly with Seagate, by 2025, the global volume of data in circulation annually will exceed 175 ZB. For comparison, 50 million 20TB hard drives are required to store a single zettabyte. This became known on September 30, 2021.

Based on a survey that IDC analysts conducted among 1,500 enterprise executives around the world at the request of Seagate, between 2020 and 2022, the total volume of these enterprises will increase annually by 42.2%. The main drivers are analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, as well as a growing number of Internet of Things devices that capture information, generate it and transmit it to the periphery. By 2025, they will create 44% of all data in the core and on the periphery. The further, the less structured and fragmented the data will be.

The total capacity storages will be significantly less than the amount of data generated. According to the IDC forecast in the Rethink Data report, by 2025 enterprises will have storage facilities with a total capacity of 12.6 ZB (annually stored - 9 ZB of information), and half of this volume will be managed by operators. cloud services It turns out that less than 10% will be saved, and 90% of all created data will be wasted.

Hard drives dominate the market for exam cloud storage - they have the lowest cost per terabyte and the optimal ratio of price, total costs, power consumption, performance, reliability and durability. Based on performance and latency, SSDs are well suited to demanding workloads that involve a large number of near-site operations. Hard drives dominate the cloud data center because they provide the lowest possible TCO for the vast majority of tasks. According to IDC, 90% of data in cloud data centers is stored on hard drives, and the remaining 10% on SSD. And according to TRENDFOCUS, in the last year alone, the supply of hard drives in terms of capacity amounted to more than 1 ZB.

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Monolithic, centralized storage architectures dominate the market, but with the growing need to perform latency-sensitive operations on the periphery, they will lose relevance. IT architects and infrastructure engineers should use even more storage capacity for public, private, and peripheral clouds.

As of September 2021, data is stored mainly in centralized storage on hard drives, but in the future preference will be given to multi-cloud storage, which allows companies to place data in public and private clouds, process it in the center and on the periphery.

Per unit of TCO, the cost per terabyte of storage capacity is used. Data center capital IT costs consist of the following components:

  • cost of racks with JBOD arrays,
  • the cost of servers, network adapters, rack switches, routers, and other equipment required to operate the appropriate environment.
  • electricity and staffing costs.

Energy consumption and cost are generally key indicators in assessing the impact of operating costs on total cost of ownership. Electricity costs vary depending on the volume of consumption and geographical location, but typically range from 5 to 20 cents per kilowatt hour. The Energy Efficiency Index (PUE) also ranges from 1.2 to 2, which is greatly affected by the efficiency of power conversion and cooling in the data center. This indicator reflects the energy efficiency of the data center.

Energy efficiency, in turn, is important in terms of energy costs and budget planning. Hyperscale operators have managed to reduce energy costs, making their share of total cost of ownership sustainable and evenly reduced. So the main component of total cost of ownership was the price of IT equipment components.

The development of renewable energy helps companies to reduce electricity costs and take care of the environment. In addition, energy costs will decrease in the coming decade due to the emergence of more energy-efficient hard drives. In addition, such drives have power balancing functions, which allows cloud architects to balance performance and energy savings.

As of September 2021, hard drives are the basis of hyperscale storage due to the minimum cost per gigabyte of data. Here are three reasons why this will not change in the next 10 years.

1. Increasing hard drive capacity will reduce the total cost of ownership of your storage infrastructure. 18 TB drives are available on the market. In 2020, drives based on thermomagnetic recording technology with medium heating (HAMR) appeared, the capacity of which was 20 TB, and by 2026 this figure will increase to 50 TB.

With high-capacity hard drives, the total cost of ownership of the storage infrastructure is reduced by 10% per 2 TB of additional HDD capacity. This is due to lower costs per terabyte; The amount spent per terabyte watt Reduction of costs per slot sealing; capacity availability in exam bytes.

The total cost of ownership of the SSD is about six times higher than hard drives, and the cost of the drives on flash memory itself is about eight times higher. It is expected that in the coming decade, the increase in hard drive capacity will successfully compensate for any decrease in SSD prices. As a result, by 2030, the total cost of ownership of the hard drive infrastructure will still be about six times lower than the same SSD capacity.

QLC NAND flash-based SSDs as an alternative storage technology for data centers are also significantly inferior to hard drives in terms of cost, market availability, and other characteristics when used in high-density storage.

2. Hard drive performance will grow to meet business needs. The main advantage of SSD - write and transfer speed - will not be decisive in competition with HDD, since the latter also increase performance. For example, MACH.2 hard drives are equipped with multiple drives, which allows you to double the number of I/Os per second. This enables cloud architects to maintain high performance environments as storage capacity grows.

3. Parity of associated costs. By maintaining the downward trend in energy costs, this component of total cost of ownership will have less and less impact on data centers. Although SSDs spend about three times less power than hard drives, this difference will not significantly affect the total cost of ownership expressed in terabytes.

The researchers noted that hard drives and SSDs have the same capacity optimization capabilities.

TCO analysis is one of the challenges for IT architects. The indicator is important for companies that serve large customers using private local data centers and provide private cloud hosting services. Companies that offer infrastructure, platform, or storage as a service face the same challenges as cloud storage architects.

Corporate information pools are overflowing. To use and analyze data, enterprises need to store them somewhere. Options include public, private, and hybrid clouds. The hybrid cloud can use a local data center, which will reduce latency for peripheral applications, and a public cloud for storing information that is less sensitive to processing speed. Public clouds have become a catalyst for storage growth, but data-dependent IT 4.0 will require hybrid clouds that combine the benefits of public and private. Solutions should be easily integrated with local and peripheral data centers.

Machine learning, artificial intelligence, and an increase in the number of devices connected to the Internet of Things lead to an increase in computing that requires high performance. The symbiosis of HDD and SSD within storage will gradually expand. SSDs will be introduced for high-performance computing, but the number of hard drives used for storage applications will increase even faster. The choice for HDD when deploying a storage architecture will be based on cost analysis and balance between performance and cost.

2019

Digital Economy Compass: 52% of all company data is stored at its own capacity, 48% in the clouds

Back in 2015, 83% of all company data were stored at their facilities. In 2019 - only 52%. The rest is in cloud storage.

According to Digital Economy Compass 2019 estimates, by 2026 only 8% of all company data will be stored on their own.

Global enterprise storage market size from 2015 to 2026

IDC EMEA Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker

According to a study by IDC EMEA Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker, the Russian market storage systems in 2019 reached $508.09 million, showing annual growth of 20.8%. The dynamics are explained by the development of demand from the corporate segment: - SHD the most important direction of infrastructure modernization, necessary to increase IT capacity in any branch of the modern economy. There is a noticeable increase in investments in high-performance systems (flash drives) - in the last quarter their share was 38.1% in monetary terms, although systems based on HDD still dominate the market. Mid-price range systems continue to be the main platform with a 64% share, and enterprise-level solutions have increased their share to 25%.

2018: The flash storage market is on the rise

The volume of the global market for storage systems (storage), which is based solely on flash memory, in 2018 reached $5.9 billion, analysts at MarketsandMarkets Research calculated. Their data was released in December 2019.

Experts did not name the market dynamics relative to 2017 and only noted that storage sales are growing and will increase in the future. It is expected that the market under consideration will show annual growth at 24.53% and reach a size of $17.8 billion by 2023.

Dynamics of sales of flash storage in the regions

Researchers include the growing use of this equipment in data centers, as well as the technological advantages of such products compared to traditional HDD-based solutions (flexibility, ease of installation and support, etc.).

The following companies have been named the largest manufacturers of SSD storage at MarketsandMarkets Research:

The study also says that the segment of solutions used as object data warehouses will grow fastest until 2023.

Analysts note that the scope of All-Flash storage systems has changed significantly. If earlier companies were ready to transfer flash storage only the most critical business applications for performance, then in 2018 there was an increase in interest in the complete consolidation of enterprise data on solid-state drives. A global survey showed that 22% of companies use flash arrays by 2018, of which 57% are only for individual applications, and 26% have completely replaced traditional storage systems in their servers.[1]

2017

IDC Flash Storage Market Assessment

In December 2017, the analytical company IDC presented the results of a study of the global market for storage systems, which are based only on solid-state drives (All-Flash).

According to experts, the largest flash storage manufacturers in 2017 were Dell EMC, IBM, HPE, NetApp and Pure Storage (listed in alphabetical order). The group of leaders also includes Hitachi Vantara and Huawei.

The largest flash storage manufacturers, IDC data for 2017
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Over the past two years, the flash array market has grown markedly, and today the greatest differentiation between manufacturers can be seen by their development strategies, by their ability to assess and increase consumer satisfaction and manage technology refresh cycles, "says IDC Research Director  Eric Burgener. - Manufacturers like Pure Storage are raising the bar in this area and increasing consumer satisfaction.
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Judging by the illustration attached to the study, Pure Storage leads the flash storage market. Analysts attributed the company's advantages to its effective strategy in the field of NVMe, cloud forecasting analytics, high consumer satisfaction and technological updates under the Evergreen program.

However, Pure Storage had many shortcomings. One is the lack of support for synchronous replication and derived configurations in FlashArray products. These features are important for enterprise workloads that cover several critical tasks.

Against Pure Storage plays the absence and profit of the company. True, the vendor predicts a break-even level in fiscal year 2018. The report for this period will be published in February 2018 calendar year.

Pure Storage's revenue grows faster than the All-Flash hardware market, the company has access to the tools necessary to grow its business and attract more customers. However, the manufacturer has not proven its ability to be profitable and remain so, according to IDC.

According to analysts, in 2016-2017, the flash storage market underwent significant changes, thanks to which most customers (about 80%), who had not previously used storage systems, are going to choose flash solutions for working with corporate information.

By the end of 2017, all major storage manufacturers are present in the All-Flash market, as well as several startups with annual revenues of more than $100 million.

Most of the revenue in this market is generated by sales of systems for web-scalable applications and tight consolidation of mixed loads.

The areas in which there is the greatest differentiation between manufacturers (in the way they update technologies and work with customers), IDC calls NVMe solutions and cloud services for predictive analytics. They may be secondary to companies looking for a reliable platform to combine workloads, but vendors focused on these areas are helping to transform the market, which in the long run will significantly benefit customers, the report says.

By the end of 2017, about 30 product models were presented on the All-Flash equipment market. True, not all of them are suitable for consolidating enterprise workloads.

The IDC study covers a comprehensive set of parameters that assess the success of manufacturers in implementing enterprise-class storage platforms for large-scale consolidation of mixed workloads, including those that include the most critical applications.[2]

Gartner Magic Quadrant in Flash Storage Segment

In July 2017, the analytical company Gartner unveiled the "magic quadrant" in the sphere storage systems () SHD based on solid-state drives (Solid-State Arrays, SSA). The corporation IBM was again among the market leaders.

Manufacturers of SSA solutions, which were included in the group of leaders according to Gartner, received the highest ratings for the ability to implement projects and completeness of vision. These companies have a large market share, a high reputation and the necessary sales and marketing resources that allow them to create new technologies.

Gartner Magic Quadrant by Flash Storage Segment

The largest manufacturers of flash masses demonstrate a clear understanding of the needs of the market, they are innovators and authoritative experts. They have clear plans that current and potential customers can use to develop their storage infrastructures and strategies. In addition, these leaders are present in all four main geographical zones, have stable financial indicators and wide support for the platform, explained in the "magic quadrant."

IBM is recognized as one of the market leaders in SSD-based storage, according to Gartner's methodology, for four consecutive years. According to experts, the company managed to strengthen its position after developing solutions supporting the NVMe protocol and the release of new hybrid products for mainframe, with which users can automate the process of transferring their data from the local infrastructure to the cloud.

In addition to IBM, the leaders of the "magic quadrant" in the field of SSA storage included Dell EMC, HPE, NetApp, Pure Storage, Kaminario and Hitachi Data SystemsThe Japanese Fujitsu fell into the Challengers sector of the "magic quadrant." [3]

Q1

In the first quarter of 2017, the global market storage systems () SHD almost stopped falling largely due to flash memory-based solutions, analysts say. IDC

In January-March, the total revenue of manufacturers from the sale of storage intended for use in IT infrastructures of companies and data centers reached $9.17 billion against $9.22 billion a year earlier. The decline was 0.5%, while in the fourth quarter of 2016 it was measured at 7.8%.

Major Storage Vendors, IDC Data
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The enterprise storage market ended the first quarter with a relatively even performance, although it matched a well-known picture, said IDC analyst Liz Conner. - Costs for traditional external arrays continue to slowly decrease, while the costs of implementing all-flash systems [they are based on drives exclusively based on flash memory - approx. TAdviser] again showed significant growth and contributed to the growth of the entire market. Meanwhile, the very nature of the hyperscaled business leads to strong fluctuations in this market segment, which showed strong growth in the first quarter of 2017.
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Server solutions accounted for $2.7 billion in market revenue in the first three months of 2017, which is 13.7% less than a year ago. The total storage revenues of ODM manufacturers (supply equipment directly to data centers) jumped 78.2% year-on-year, exceeding $1.2 billion. The market share of these companies reached 13.2%.

The volume of the external storage segment in the first quarter of 2017 amounted to $5.2 billion, which is almost 3% less compared to the same period of the previous year.

Major External Storage Vendors, IDC Data

Quarterly sales of all-flash solutions increased by 75.7% to almost $1.4 billion. Hybrid sales turned out to be $2 billion or 22% of the total storage market.[4]

2013

The market storage systems in 2013 reached 22.5 billion, dollars increasing compared to 2012 year on 1.4% amid the slow growth of the global economy, according to a report by an analytical company. Gartner

Gartner analysts consider the overall weakness of the global economy to be the reasons for the slow growth of the market, especially in North America, Asia-Pacific and EMEA countries. However, they note that in the fourth quarter of 2013, the storage market grew by 5% compared to the same period last year after a significant drop in the third quarter of the year to $6.3 billion.

The Gartner report also noted that the average price of one device increased by 5.1% in 2013 compared to 2012, while the price for one terabyte continued to decline, indicating that users are switching to large storage systems.

The world market leader in 2013 was EMC, whose share increased by 3.7% to 34.3% or $7.7 billion. Leading global manufacturers also included IBM ($2.8 billion and 12.7%), NetApp2 ($2.7 billion and 11.8%) and HP ($2.1 billion and 9.2%).

Forecast: Global Storage Market to Slow Growth Due to Clouds

In June 2013, IDC released another forecast for the storage market until 2017. According to analysts, global enterprises will purchase storage systems with a total capacity of 138 exabytes of data in the next four years. The average annual increase in the total realized capacity of storage systems from 2013 to 2017 will be about 30%.

However, compared to previous years of rapid growth in data warehouse consumption, the pace will slow somewhat, as more companies choose technologies that optimize data warehouses and use cloud solutions, says IDC analyst Natalya Yezhkova.

To save space in storage, she said, tools such as data deduplication, data compression, virtualization and others are being used. All these tools allow companies to save space occupied by each bit of information, as well as turn to buying new storage systems when they are really needed, avoiding spontaneous purchases.

Of the storage facilities totaling 138 exabytes that will be sold in 2017, 102 exabytes will be for external storage systems and 36 exabytes for internal. For comparison, in 2012, storage systems worth 20 exabytes for external and 8 exabytes for internal systems were implemented, according to IDC. In monetary terms, costs for industrial storage systems will grow by about 4.1% per year and amount to $42.5 billion by 2017.

As mentioned above, in previous years, the global storage market has experienced a real boom, which is now declining. For example, in 2005, consumption of storage systems at the industrial level increased by 65%, and in 2006 and 2007 - by 59%. In 2008 and beyond until 2011, the storage market experienced an additional negative impact from the global economic recession.

According to Natalia Yezhkova, the growth of cloud storage usage will definitely reduce the consumption of storage solutions at the enterprise level. On the one hand, cloud providers are also actively purchasing storage for their systems, for example, Google and Facebook build their own servers on a custom basis from finished components, however, these servers are not included in the IDC report.

IDC also expects that in terms of storage consumption, emerging markets in the near term will go far ahead of developed markets, because, logically enough, economic growth is higher here. For example, already in 2014, the region of Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa will surpass Japan in terms of storage costs. By 2015, the Asia-Pacific region, with the exception of Japan, will surpass Western Europe in terms of storage consumption.

2012

4.7% increase in storage sales to $24.7 billion

According to IDC experts, global sales of external storage systems for the whole 2012 year amounted to $24.7 billion, which means an increase of this figure by 4.7% compared to the results of 2011 year. The total potential capacity of external storage  delivered  to the market in 2012 exceeded 20 exabytes, which is 27% higher than in 2011.

Considering the global storage market by segment, IDC experts note, among other things, that in the fourth quarter, the networked storage segment (NAS together with Open/ iSCSI SAN) showed a 2.6% increase in revenue compared to year-on-year and reached $5.7 billion. EMC vendor continues to lead the market in the networked storage segment, occupying 34.5% of this market segment in terms of revenue. EMC is followed by NetApp, which accounts for  13.7% of revenue.    

In the Open SAN solutions segment, which grew 0.3% over the year, EMC is also the leading vendor, accounting for 28.7% of revenue. It is followed by IBM with 18% market share and HP and Hitachi, which account for 11.9% and 11.4% of the share, respectively. The NAS market, in turn, showed an 8.8% increase in performance when comparing year-on-year. EMC is the leader here with a 48.2% share in revenue, and the second place is taken by NetApp with a score of 28.3%.

In terms of revenue indicators and the distribution of the market share of external storage systems among the main players, according to IDC, the situation in the fourth quarter of 2012 was as follows: In the first place with a share of 30.7% was EMC, for the year (compared to the fourth quarter of 2011), this vendor saw revenue growth of 7.5%. EMC has $2.071 billion in revenue in the fourth quarter of 2012.

Local vendors in the CEMA region "peep" in the external storage market

The external storage market in the Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEMA) region showed an increase in growth in the third quarter of 2012 and reached 304.7 Petabytes, which corresponds to an increase of 40% in annual terms.

According to IDC[5], end-user spending on such systems increased by almost 18% over the same period of time to $501 million. Moreover, in many respects, the success of the market is due to the good results of second-tier vendors and local companies.

However, in the third quarter of 2012, major players such as EMC, HP and IBM continued to dominate the market. However, for the first time since 2006, their combined share fell below the 70% bar. EMC remained the market leader with a share of 35.7%, HP in second place with 17.3%, and IBM in third place with 15.2%.

According to Pavel Roland, an IDC expert, it is local players and non-major vendors who are the locomotive of the external storage market in the CEMA region, achieving growth in%, expressed in double-digit and even three-digit numbers. The success of their business is often based on deliveries to public sector enterprises, as well as an increase in supplies to the medium and large business segment.

Third Quarter

The global market storage systems grew SHD 1.4% in the third quarter of 2012 compared to the same period in 2011, according to the company's report#. IDC[6] reached $3.46 billion.

According to Eric Sheppard, IDC Research Director, the overall negative factors for the development of this market were a decrease in investments in archival systems, storage infrastructure systems, and replication software. On the other hand, analysts note a surge in interest in data protection and recovery systems

EMC, NetApp, and IBM remain the largest vendors in the storage market, accounting for 25.3%, 14.8%, and 14.7%, respectively. CommVault and Hitachi in the third quarter of 2012 showed the maximum growth rate - in annual terms by 21.8% and 10.2%, respectively.

Separately, in the data protection and recovery segment, vendor revenue grew by 4.3% over the year to $1.24 billion, while in the storage and device management segment by 5.1% to $652.6 million.

Q1

The global market for disk storage solutions based on external controller-based (ECB) disk storage in the first quarter of 2012 reached $5.4 billion, an 8% increase compared to the same period last year, according to Gartner. This is the 10th quarter in a row, when the revenue of vendors increases.

Analysts acknowledge that manufacturers of ECB storage systems may have experienced minor difficulties with components, in particular with hard drives (HDD) due to the flood in Thailand in October 2011. However, the cost of such solutions remained at a fairly high level before the flood, and was calculated based on the number of terabytes.

EMC remained the market leader in the first quarter of 2012, growing revenue in this segment of its business by 2.4% in annual terms. The company deals with 32.5% of the market in monetary terms, followed by NetApp, IBM, Hitachi, HP, Dell, Fujitsu, Oracle in order to reduce shares.

Revenue of ECB disk storage vendors in the global market, $ million

Source: Gartner, June 2012

Among regional markets, Gartner forecasts were justified primarily by Latin America and North America, where the market volume in annual terms for the first quarter of 2012 increased by 17.1% and 14.1%, respectively. Over a comparable period, the market for such devices in the Asia-Pacific region grew by 4.1%, and in Japan individually - decreased by 12.3%.

Storage Cost Plans - Managers Survey

According to TheInfoPro, a negligible number of IT managers plan to invest in analytical tools for processing "big data" in the near future. So, 56% do not intend to spend funds on such decisions until the end of 2013. Most respondents to the Technology Heat Index Survey noted that they simply do not need tools like Hadoop, since they meet very specific business requirements.

Among other technologies, study participants ranked first in investment priorities for server consolidation and virtualization (43%), business application update (40%), information archiving (32%), implementation of new business systems (29%) and recovery tools (18%).

What initiatives are critical to your networked storage infrastructure? (up to three options)


TheInfoPro, 2012

Among storage technologies, most investments in 2011 were made in Fibre Channel (48%), in second place is SATA (31%), SAS accounted for 19%. At the same time, in 2012 on Fibre Channel they plan to increase spending only 11% (apparently, there was a certain saturation), but on SAS - 41% of the survey participants.

What percentage of investments were made in which storage technologies in 2011 and what are the plans for 2012?


TheInfoPro, 2012

The study also found that the number of companies planning to implement SSD increased from 7% in 2011 to 37% in 2012.

Which vendors are used in hybrid arrays?


TheInfoPro, 2012

Hybrid arrays have used EMC, NetApp, Hitachi, IBM, HP, Oracle, and Dell most frequently.

2011: Up to $6.8 billion in sales of NAS and unified storage by 32%

According to Gartner, the global NAS/unified storage market turnover grew by 32.5% in 2011 compared to 2010 and reached $6.8 billion . The NAS-only segment increased by 21.5% to $4.5 billion, according to analysts. The report also states that a key driver of this market growth is the fact that block-access storage vendors have added unified management interface NAS capabilities to their SAN arrays.

The total revenue of the disk storage market in 2011 increased by 8.2%, compared to 2010, reaching $31.1 billion. EMC and HP became leaders with 21.5% and 18.5% of the market, respectively, followed by IBM and Dell, with shares of 15.4% and 11.4%, respectively.

Disk Storage Vendors 2011 (Revenues in Million)

Supplier

2011 income

2011 market share

2010 income

2010 market share

2011/2010 income growth

1. EMC

$6,694

21.5%

$5,416

18.9%

23.6%

2. HP

$5,758

18.5%

$5,452

19.0%

5.6%

3. IBM

$4,787

15.4%

$4,490

16.0%

4.3%

4. Dell

$3,552

11.4%

$3,417

11.9%

3.9%

5. NetApp

$2,911

9.4%

$2,352

8.2%

23.7%

The others

$7,376

23.7%

$7,491

26.1%

-1.5%

All suppliers

$31,079

100.0%

$28,718

100.0%

8.2%

Source: IDC Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker, March 1, 2012

External Disk Storage Market

Production revenues in the global market of external disk storage systems in 2011 increased by 10.6% compared to 2010 and amounted to $23.5 billion in absolute terms. The leading suppliers for the year are EMC and IBM with market shares of 28.5% and 13.5%, respectively, followed by NetApp and HP with 12.4% and 10.7% of the market, respectively.

TOP-5 Global External Disk Storage Vendors Revenues, 2011 (mln)

Supplier

2011 income

2011 market share

2010 income

2010 market share

2011/2010 income growth

1. EMC

$6,694

28.5%

$5,416

25.5%

23.6%

2. IBM

$3,183

13.5%

$2,922

13.8%

8.9%

3. NetApp

$2,911

12.4%

$2,352

11.1%

23.7%

4. HP

$2,524

10.7%

$2,344

11.0%

7.7%

5. Hitachi

$2,068

8.8%

$1,741

8.2%

18.8%

The others

$6,116

26.0%

$6,460

30.4%

-5.3%

All suppliers

$23,495

100.0%

$21,236

100.0%

10.6%

Source: IDC Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker, March 1, 2012

According to Liz Conner, a senior storage analyst at IDC, the external disk storage market ended 2011 with a strong upturn, which helped achieve a growth rate of 10.6% over the year. "The overall growth of the market was facilitated by developing regions, where in 2011 there was a high steady growth. In the developed regions, there was a mild dynamics of growth, as the economies there entered the phase of exit from the recession, "the analyst said.

According to her, another factor that affected the market recovery in 2011 and, in particular, the increase in growth in the fourth quarter was the delayed shortage of hard drives caused by floods in Thailand. The enterprise storage market is expected to experience the brunt of this shortfall in 2012, with minimal impact on the fourth quarter and 2011 as a whole.

2008

Against the backdrop of the crisis and falling sales volumes in the global IT market, the segment storage systems remains not only stable, but also growing. According to the results of the third quarter of 2008, sales here amounted to 3.1 billion, dollars which is 11.06% more than last year's results. Such data lead analysts from. International Data Corp The market leader here remains, EMC which in the reporting period managed to sell goods and services for 758 million dollars, which amounted to almost a quarter of the total sales turnover in this area.

"Archiving, Data Protection and Recovery, Data Management, and Networked Storage deliver the best annual growth in the current environment. Archiving is becoming almost a natural business need, distributed file systems are gaining popularity in virtualization, and growing sales in data protection and recovery is also logical - data loss often means business loss for companies, "says James Baker, an IDC analyst
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The top five global vendors in the storage segment are as follows (in millions of dollars):

!EMC!Symantec!IBM!NetApp!Hewlett-Packard!CA Total
Manufacturer 3Q08 Revenue T3Q08 Market Share 3Q07 Revenue 3Q07 Market Share 3Q08/3Q07 Revenue Growth
$758 24.7% $711 25.8% 6.7%
$545 17.8% $472 17.2% 15.3%
$396 12.9% $354 12.9% 12.0%
$261 8.5% $228 8.3% 14.3%
$133 4.3% $113 4.1% 17.6%
$124 4.0% $119 4.3% 4.3%
Others $851 27.7% $753 27.4% 13.0%
$3 068 100.0% $2 750 100.0% 11.6%

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