The SDS market is on the rise and only expected to grow. Find out the main drivers behind migration to SDS. Software-Defined Storage and Storage virtualization are deemed very urgent right now.

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$6.2
BILLION
$1.4
BILLION
2014
in 2019
34.6%
an estimated
Compound Annual
Growth Rate (CAGR) of
THE INDUSTRY’S TAKE ON
SOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE
KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF A
TRUE SDS SOLUTION
1. Does not require any proprietary hardware components
2. Should be able to run on multiple (virtual and physical) hardware instances
3. Is a standalone or autonomous system
Source: IDC
Source: Fifth Annual Software-Defined Storage Survey
What are the primary reasons your organization
chose to deploy storage virtualization software?
The ability to add storage capacity without business
disruption.
SPENDING FOR SDS IN STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION AND
VIRTUAL SANS IS ON THE RISE
Software-Defined Storage and storage virtualization
are deemed very urgent now:
expect similar levels of spending on
SDS technologies incorporated
within server SANs / virtual SANs &
converged storage.
81%72%
of organizations are making
important investments in these
technologies throughout 2015.
Human Error
10%
20%
40%
70%
60%
50%
30%
HVAC Failure / Water Leaks
(heating, ventilating, and
air conditioning)
Construction Fire / Smoke Vandalism
61%
36%
14%
8%
3%
Many organizations are moving away from storage functions
tied to specific hardware. In fact, year-to-year comparisons
reveal more pronounced use of Software-Defined Storage and
the prerequisite storage virtualization software for purposes of
achieving continuous availability, faster performance
and higher efficiency.
Source: Fifth Annual Software-Defined Storage Survey
Source: Fifth Annual Software-Defined Storage Survey
Source: Fifth Annual Software-Defined Storage Survey
The complexity which accompanies data growth and diversity is taking a big toll.
61% of respondents in the fifth annual State of SDS Survey indicated that human
error was behind application and data center outages. In fact, downtime resulting
from these errors and accidents were cited with nearly twice the frequency of
heating, ventilation and air conditioning failures. It’s clear from these findings
that the automation and workflow orchestration provided by SDS platforms can
significantly reduce the occurrence of human errors, and with that, a marked
decrease in downtime.
We asked IT buyers,
WHAT ARE THE DRIVERS BEHIND MIGRATION TO SDS?
RATIONALE FOR VIRTUALIZING STORAGE –
AVOID BUSINESS DISRUPTION + REDUCE COSTS
Supporting synchronous mirroring and metro clusters for
high availability to ensure business continuity.
Asynchronous data replication for remote site
disaster recovery.
Cost reductions made possible when separating data
services from the storage hardware.
The total software-defined market
IS ONLY EXPECTED TO GROW.
HUMAN ERRORS
DRIVE THE NEED FOR GREATER AUTOMATION
DataCore SANsymphony™-V
One Software-Defined Storage Platform
Across Your Entire Infrastructure.
CLOUDSANHYPER-CONVERGED
VIRTUAL
MACHINES
PHYSICAL
SERVERS
VIRTUAL
DESKTOPS
FLASH DISKS FLASH DISKS FLASH DISKS
UNIFIED STORAGE SERVICES
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than 10,000 customer sites around the world use DataCore’s adaptive
and self-learning and healing technology to take the pain out of manual
processes and achieve the promise of the new software-defined data
center through its hardware-agnostic architecture.
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