Worldwide Software-Defined Storage Controller Software Forecast, 2016–2020
This IDC study provides a forecast for the worldwide software-defined storage controller software market."We expect the market will break the $1 billion mark in 2016 and grow at a 40.1% CAGR in 2015–2020," said Andrew Smith, senior research analyst, IDC's Storage Software group. "The sustained double-digit growth of the SDS-CS market makes this segment the fastest growing of IDC's seven storage software functional markets. We expect the SDS-CS market to maintain an annual growth trajectory despite the sluggish performance of the overall storage software market, which will be negatively impacted by the poor performance of storage replication and storage infrastructure solutions."
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- IDC Market Forecast Figure
- Executive Summary
- Advice for Technology Suppliers
- Market Forecast
- Market Context
- Drivers and Inhibitors
- Drivers
- Adoption of Open Source Software
- The Accelerating Pace of Hyperconvergence
- Inhibitors
- Negative Buyer Perceptions
- Public Cloud and SaaS Competition
- Significant Market Developments
- Changes from Prior Forecast
- Market Definition
- Software-Defined Storage Controller Software
- Block-Based Software-Defined Storage Controller Software
- File-Based Software-Defined Storage Controller Software
- Object-Based Software-Defined Storage Controller Software
- Hyperconverged Software-Defined Storage Controller Software
- Methodology
- Historical Market Values and Exchange Rates
- Forecast Market Values and Exchange Rates
- Related Research
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