Worldwide Storage Software Market Shares, 2021: The Market Beats Expectations
This IDC study presents key figures and trends of the overall storage software market in 2021 and highlights some of the key contributing vendors that helped drive performance."The storage software market weathered the global COVID-19 pandemic and even increased its outlook as it begins to emerge on the other side," said Greg Macatee, senior research analyst, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms and Technologies Group. "We see promising opportunity over the next several years for suppliers in the archiving, DR&P, and SDS-CS software functional markets as enterprises increasingly adopt containerized and cloud-native technologies in pursuit of greater IT scalability and digital transformation."
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- IDC Market Share Figure
- Executive Summary
- Advice for Technology Suppliers
- Market Share
- Who Shaped the Year
- Market Context
- Significant Market Developments
- Methodology
- Market Definition
- Data Replication and Protection Software
- Data Protection Software
- Backup and Recovery Reporting Software
- Storage Replication Software
- Host or Hypervisor-Based Replication Software
- Systems and Data Migration Software
- Fabric and Appliance-Based Replication Software
- Array-Based Replication Software
- Replication Management Software
- Archiving Software
- Email Archiving Software
- File and Other Archiving Software
- Storage Infrastructure and Device Management Software
- Storage Resource Management and Heterogenous SAN Management Software
- Storage Resource Management and Homogenous SAN Management Software
- Storage Device Management Software
- Virtualization and Federation Software
- Host-Based File Systems and Volume Management Software
- Storage Access and Path Management Software
- Automated Storage Tiering Software
- Storage Acceleration Software
- Other Storage Management and Infrastructure Software
- 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
- Hyperconvergence and Software–Defined Storage Software Platforms
- Related Research