Japan Storage Software Market Shares Update, 1H16: Changeover of Growing Segments

Japan Storage Software Market Shares Update, 1H16: Changeover of Growing Segments

This examines the market conditions of the Japan storage market and analyzes vendor competition. Although sales have declined in old functional areas, such as storage management and replication, as a result of standardized bundling, areas such as software-defined storage market are seeing an expansion of revenue. This shows that the market drivers are changing."The adoption of software-defined infrastructure is important to bring about reforms in IT infrastructure that will support digital transformation in enterprises. To realize this, storage software should be further enhanced to raise system scalability, cost efficiency, and agility to a different level. The emergence of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) is also taking place and models of software-defined storage to be a part of HCI products are also being increasingly provided. It is therefore expected that market penetration will take place steadily," saysYasusuke Suzuki, research manager, Enterprise Infrastructure, IDC Japan.

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