Six industry applications with the fastest growing storage requirements

1th Place: Video surveillance. According to research by ABI, the Market Research institute, the video surveillance market will continue to develop rapidly in the next few years. Revenue in the field will likely reach $46 billion trillion by 2013, more than twice times the 2006 13.5 billion dollar income. Of course, storage is one of the reasons for the rapid expansion of this area, such as Intransa and PIVOT3 and other manufacturers to see the market opportunity, the introduction of video surveillance applications generated data management and storage solutions. Since our world has become more and more "crazy", so this area in the short term will not stop the rapid development of the pace.

2nd place: Entertainment. With the popularity of cameras and the innovation of digital processing technology, storage vendors are scrambling to launch technology and products to catch up with the rapid development of the vertical market.

3rd place: Social networking. Wikis, blogs, and sites like Facebook all require a lot of storage space, and this trend can only continue if enterprise applications start to move into Web 2.0 mode. As the field becomes more and more popular, the importance of storage becomes apparent as time goes on. Users predict that the need for social networks will play an important role in improving existing unstructured content management and file management, as evidenced by EMC's commitment to developing Maui technologies.

4th bit: Managed applications. Trust applications are driving the development of management services, according to research by Industry Research Institute In-stat, which is expected to break 42.2 billion trillion dollars in domestic revenue this year. Those custodians need to be stored, which is why vendors such as Asigra are showing good reasons to the hosting business. At the same time, the efforts of companies such as EMC and IBM in cloud computing have also demonstrated the idea that storage vendors want to create a framework for SaaS technology. So, of course, this has to count as a hot area.

5th place: Government storage. The main reason Arkeia, Asigra, Inmage, and some other suppliers have focused on the government sector is that there is a lot of development value in this area. Government agencies have been the main investors in storage it vendors, and many industry reports have shown that the trend towards architecture optimization, content security, and Web 2.0 network development is proving that future government storage needs will become stronger.

6th place: Medical filing. Hospitals, physicians and healthcare providers around the world create large numbers of data files such as medical images in their image storage and transmission systems (picture archiving and Communications Systems,pacs). Many manufacturers have looked at this market demand and have launched related solutions, including EMC, HDS, HP, IBM, NETAPP, Overland, Permabit, and Plasmon. Bycast, a professional manufacturer of medical content management, has also established partnerships with storage vendors. There are still a number of vendors to launch the relevant storage services, such as the recent Iron Mountain to move. We estimate that there will be greater room for development in the future.