2018 Predictions of 38 Storage Vendors
This study took place these last few weeks. We have asked a selection of 50 CEOs and other leaders of the storage industry about their 2018 predictions and got finally 38 answers to discover some trends or at least repeatable patterns and topics.
Worldwide All-Flash Array in 2017 – IDC
The all-flash array (AFA) market has undergone significant maturation over the past two years. A high percentage of customers have already committed to an ‘all flash for primary storage’ strategy, and every customer interviewed for this study was among those.
HDD and SSD Market From 2015 to 2021 – Statista
This charts and comments are published on the web site of Statista GmbH, a statistics company on the internet.
Gartner: Hype Cycle for Storage in 2017
This Hype Cycle evaluates storage-related hardware and software technologies in terms of their business impact, adoption rate and maturity level to help users decide where and when to invest.
2018 Storage Trends and Predictions From Primary Data
Software solves storage complexity
Few IT professionals admit to a love of buzzwords, and one of the biggest offenders in the last few years is the term, software-defined storage (SDS). With marketers borrowing from the successes of software-defined-networking, the use of SDS attempts all kinds of claims. Yet the term does little to help most of us to understand what a specific SDS product can do. Despite the well-earned dislike of the phrase, true SD solutions will continue to gain traction because they try to bridge the gap between legacy infrastructure and modern storage needs. In fact, even as hardware sales declines, IDC forecasts that the SDS market will grow at a rate of 13.5% from 2017 – 2021, growing to a $16.2 billion market by the end of the forecast period.
WW Flash Storage Market Worth $9.97 Billion by 2023 – MarketsandMarkets
According to the new market research report Universal Flash Storage Market by Capacity (32GB, 64GB, 128GB, 256GB, 512GB), Configuration, End Use (Automotive Electronics, Digital cameras, Gaming Consoles, High-Resolution Displays, Smartphones), Application, and Geography – Global Forecast to 2023 ($5,650; 154 pages)), published by MarketsandMarkets, the market is estimated to be valued at $9.97 billion by 2023, at a CAGR of 18.6% between 2017 and 2023.
WW SSD Market to Increase by CAGR of 14.4% Through 2022 – BCC Research
The SSD market is expected to increase by a CAGR of 14.4% through 2022, with the largest market being North and South America.
The total market is forecast to reach $52.5 billion by 2022 from $26.8 billion in 2017, with the largest segment and most growth coming from SSDs with more than 1TB of storage, according to the report Solid-state Drives Technology: Global Market Analysis ($3,950,103 pages), by BCC Research.
All Flash Array Storage Market Increased 48 Percent Y/Y In 1q17, According To Dell’oro Group
According to a recently published report from Dell’Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, networks, and data center IT industries, All Flash Array market revenue grew 48 percent year-over-year in 1Q17, reaching just over $1.3 B.
“All Flash Array is the only segment growing in the external storage market space,” said Jimmy Yu, Vice President at Dell’Oro Group. “While the total market for external storage has contracted for the past two years, and will likely decline again this year, all flash storage system sales are reaching all new highs. We predict All Flash Array revenue to grow approximately 40 percent in 2017 to reach nearly $7 B while Disk and Hybrid Storage system revenues decline about 14 percent,” added Yu.
Survey on Software-Defined Storage, Hyperconverged and Cloud Storage – DataCore
DataCore Software Corporation announced the results of its sixth annual survey (registration rquired), designed to explore the impact of major software-driven storage deployments within organizations across the globe.
The survey distills the positive expectations, disappointments, and experiences of 426 IT professionals who are currently using or evaluating software-defined storage (SDS), hyperconverged and cloud storage to solve critical storage challenges. The results yielded surprising insights from a cross-section of industries over a wide range of workloads.
Rubrik Raises $180 Million Series D, Total Funding at $292 Million
Rubrik, Inc. announced a $180 million series D investment led by IVP with strong participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners and Greylock Partners, bringing total equity raised to $292 million.
With a run-rate approaching $100 million, and several hundred enterprise customers adopting its Cloud Data Management, Rubrik has established a record setting growth in six quarters of selling.