Neuralytix research shows that the European market for storage systems continue to show interest for more efficient, effective and high performant storage systems.
Despite all the talk and buzz around everything becoming software-defined, there is clear evidence that traditional SAN/NAS storage will continue to be a mainstay in the overall storage systems market for the foreseeable future. Neuralytix believes that the storage market will follow closely to the Fibre Channel (FC) market, where, despite all the premature suggestions of the FC market’s demise, it continues to be strong, as IT professionals evolve slowly, and carefully towards newer architectures.
After all, of all the components in a datacenter, storage is undoubtedly the most conservative of all.
The evolution of the IT cloud is the largest single business disruptor that the IT market has seen in years.
The cloud, as a business model, shifts in the way end-users acquire and use technology. There is no new product, there are just new business models.
With this is has brought new players such as AWS and Google to name a few, as key players in the IT market.
HP’s decision to exit the public market is one sign of the shifts that vendors are recognizing that their core business is infrastructure provision, and that advanced data services may not be an area that they have the strength or knowhow to compete with the likes of AWS, Microsoft and Google.
Dell’s portfolio of storage hardware and storage software will greatly expand with the acquisition of EMC Corp. in 2016. The acquisition will automatically extend Dell’s reach into high-end enterprise IT storage. Neuralytix believes it will also give Dell direct access to EMC’s large installed base – giving Dell an opportunity for IT transformation that would surround, or replace, aging storage systems with new ones from Dell.
“Customers and channel partners will want to have choice, as well as integrated solutions that can be rapidly deployed,” says Jean S. Bozman, director of infrastructure research at Neuralytix. “That’s why communications about the changes that will follow this acquisition will be essential in the next phase of the process to combine two of the best-known IT franchises in the world.”
