The global data center IT infrastructure market will reach $116 billion in 2021 from $95 billion in 2017, according to data center IT infrastructure market report from Technavio.
Arista Networks, Brocade, Cisco Systems, Dell, Hitachi, HPE, IBM, Juniper Networks, Lenovo, and NetApp as the key technology vendors in the global data center IT infrastructure market.
“The market for IT infrastructure is dependent on the growth of data centers. The investment in data centers is driven by the adoption of cloud-based services, big data analytics, and IoT by organizations to serve end-users including businesses and consumers,” said Rohan Joy Thomas, a lead analyst at Technavio for data center research.
The all-flash storage array market experienced significant growth – driven by hyper-scale data center facilities. The data center all-flash storage array is projected to grow at a CAGR of approximately 20 percent during the forecast period.
The main driver for the growth of all-flash storage arrays is the need for better storage performance for applications. Flash-based storage arrays offer 40 times better input/output (I/O) than hard disks and around 50 percent reduction in power consumption.
The growth of the flash-based arrays market will be mainly driven by the increased use of the cloud-based application, big data analytics, and IoT requiring higher performance.
Vendors are continuously decreasing the price of their products because of the increased demand for all-flash storage arrays. The overall market will experience steady growth with the adoption of these arrays and will add more revenue to the IT infrastructure market.
The rapid growth of data center spaces is leading to increased procurement of IT infrastructure. The price of infrastructure is dropping to support the adoption of hyper-scale infrastructure products. The drop in infrastructure pricing already impacted the cloud pricing model. For example, AWS has slashed its cloud-based service pricing by more than 40 percent, compared to its pricing in 2010.
The emergence of systems that include converged and hyper-converged infrastructure solutions has led to the drop in the price of traditional IT infrastructure solutions. Growing adoption of flash arrays will lead to a fall in the ASP of SSD solutions. In terms of networking, the cost of physical hardware will drop with the increasing adoption of virtual networking solutions.
The adoption of unified storage architecture is growing among data center users. This includes the use of one storage system for both block and file storage access or the use of a gateway to connect different systems.
Unified storage arrays will also witness growth in support for object storage. The number of unified storage systems will continue to grow as it reduces the number of systems that need to be managed in a data center.
Unified storage arrays are also effective in terms of both CAPEX and OPEX, flexibility, and scalability purposes. These unified systems are also available in flash and hybrid array combinations.
The number of virtual machines deployed in data centers is growing significantly, and the use of unified storage will be a huge advantage while allocating both file and block access to each virtual machine without compromising the performance of the storage array.
