Looking to the future storage market

Industry users have increased their investment in IT infrastructure equipment and stored them as key equipment added. The explosion of massive data, especially unstructured data, led to increased demand for storage devices by enterprise users. Key industry users and government agencies to improve the understanding of storage construction, additional investment. From a market-share perspective, EMC, IBM, HP occupies the top three.

Looking into the future storage market, there are some noticeable trends in technology development and customer demand.

First, the need for data backup and recovery continues to increase, so its future trends focus mainly on adding new features to the solution to improve the efficiency and experience of existing products.

For example, with backup software already in place, customers will buy more monitoring and reporting tools, and the data deduplication feature will be popular. Faced with the pressure to ensure data availability and recoverability, organizations are willing to implement monitoring and reporting tools related to data backup to provide a single platform for all data protection features including backup, snapshots, and replication. At the same time, in order to save the cost of data storage, more enterprises began to adopt the product of duplicate data deletion. Products with duplicate data removal technologies not only help customers save costs, but also provide a better use experience for businesses that have limited bandwidth or backup time constraints.

In relatively mature markets such as data backup and recovery, new product usage patterns and technology architectures can also bring change. For example, companies with branch offices choose to use online storage services to expand or replace existing systems to control costs. As virtualization grows, innovation in the technology of consolidating server virtualization drives the backup software marketplace around virtualized architectures.

The replication software market has gained rapid growth in recent years, with a significant increase in market share. The main driving factor is the immeasurable loss caused by natural disasters in the past few years, which makes IT managers more aware of the necessity of implementing disaster preparedness projects. Replication software plays an important role in disaster preparedness and will bring sustained growth impetus to the market in the coming years. But because of the impact of cloud storage and storage services, customer demand for replication software is reduced, as will the need for some traditional backup or archiving software to achieve data transfer. The extent to which these emerging business models will affect the replication software market is noteworthy.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)