The report considers the present scenario of the worldwide data center storage market and strategic assessment for the period 2015−2021. It includes a detailed study of market drivers, trends, and restraints. It also includes the top five vendors in the market.

Section 1 Research Methodology 10

Section 2 Executive Summary 11

Section 3 Report Coverage 12

3.1 Report Assumption 13

3.1.1 Note 13

3.2 Market Derivation 14

Section 4 Introduction 15

4.1.1 Summary of Future of Storage 15

4.1.2 Key Elements 17

Section 5 Key Market Drivers 19

5.1.1 Increased Demand for Big Data Analytics 19

5.1.2 Adoption of Cloud-based Storage and STaaS 20

5.1.3 Construction of New Data Center 21

5.1.4 Need of Data Backup 21

5.1.5 Need to Store Data for Long Period 22

5.2 Impact of Market Drivers in 2015−2021 22

5.3 Impact of Market Drivers on Geographies in 2015 23

Section 6 Key Market Restraints 24

6.1.1 Increased Carbon Emission 24

6.1.2 Increased Power Requirements and OPEX 24

6.1.3 Growth of Virtual Server Environments 25

6.2 Impact of Market Restraints in 2015−2021 25

6.3 Impact of Market Restraints on Geographies in 2015 26

Section 7 Key Market Trends 27

7.1.1 Increased Usage of Flash Storage 27

7.1.2 Use of Hybrid Array 27

7.1.3 Use of SAN-NAS Combined 27

7.1.4 Increased Use of Software Defined Storage 28

7.2 Impact of Trends in 2015-2021 28

7.3 Impact of Market Trends on Geographies in 2015 29

Section 8 Market Landscape 30

8.1 Data Explosion 30

8.2 Where from Data Explosion Come? 31

8.3 Growth in Data Leads to growth in Data Center Construction 33

8.4 Data Center IT Investment 34

8.5 In Storage HDD vs. SSD vs. Hybrid! Which is the future Data Center? 36

Section 9 Worldwide Data Center Storage Market 37

9.1 Worldwide Market Size and Growth 37

9.2 Where Does Storage Stand In Data Center IT Investment 38

Section 10 Worldwide Data Center Storage Market Segmentation by Product Type 40

10.1 SAN vs. NAS! Who will Win? 40

Section 11 Data Center SAN Storage 42

11.1 Worldwide Market Size and Growth 42

11.1.1 FC SAN vs iSCSI 44

11.1.2 FC SAN 46

11.1.3 iSCSI SAN 47

Section 12 Data Center NAS Storage 48

12.1 Worldwide Market Size and Growth 48

12.1.1 Scale-up vs Scale-out 50

12.1.2 Scale-out NAS 53

12.1.3 Scale-up NAS 53

Section 13 Geographical Segmentation 55

13.1 Market Share by Geography 55

Section 14 Data Center Storage Market in North America 57

14.1 Data Center Storage Market Analysis in North America 57

14.2 Market Size and Forecast of Data Center SAN Storage 60

14.3 Market Size and Forecast of Data Center NAS Storage 62

Section 15 Data Center Storage Market in Europe 63

15.1 Data Center Storage Market Analysis in Europe 63

15.2 Market Size and Forecast in Data Center SAN Storage 66

15.3 Market Size and Forecast of Data Center NAS Storage 67

Section 16 Data Center Storage Market in APAC 68

16.1 Data Center Storage Market Analysis in APAC 68

16.2 Market Size and Forecast in Data Center SAN Storage 71

16.3 Market Size and Forecast of Data Center NAS Storage 72

Section 17 Data Center Storage Market in Latin America 73

17.1 Data Center Storage Market Analysis in Latin America 73

17.2 Market Size and Forecast of Data Center SAN Storage 76

17.3 Market Size and Forecast in Data Center NAS Storage 77

Section 18 Data Center Storage Market in MEA 78

18.1 Data Center Storage Market Analysis in MEA 78

18.2 Market Size and Forecast of Data Center SAN Storage 81

18.3 Market Size and Forecast of Data Center NAS Storage 82

Section 19 Competitive Landscape 83

19.1 Market Share 83

19.2 SAN Market Share 85

19.2.1 FC SAN Market Share 86

19.2.2 iSCSI SAN Market Share 87

19.3 NAS Market Share 88

19.4 Impact of Dell-EMC Mergers and Acquisition 90

19.5 Key Vendor Portfolio Analysis by Storage Type 91

Section 20 Key Vendor Analysis 92

20.1 Dell 92

20.1.1 About the company 92

20.1.2 Data Center Storage Business Segment 92

20.1.3 Product offering 93

20.1.4 Strength 93

20.1.5 Opportunities 94

20.2 Dell EMC 95

20.2.1 About the company 95

20.2.2 Data Center Storage Business Segment 95

20.2.3 Product Offering 95

20.2.4 Strength 96

20.2.5 Opportunities 96

20.3 Hitachi Data System 97

20.3.1 About the company 97

20.3.2 Data Center Storage Business Segment 97

20.3.3 Product Offering 97

20.3.4 Strength 98

20.3.5 Opportunities 98

20.4 HP 99

20.4.1 About the company 99

20.4.2 Data Center Storage Business Segment 99

20.4.3 Product Offering 99

20.4.4 Strength 100

20.4.5 Opportunities 100

20.5 IBM 101

20.5.1 About the company 101

20.5.2 Data Center Storage Business Segment 101

20.5.3 Product offering 101

20.5.4 Strength 102

20.5.5 Opportunities 102

20.6 NetApp 103

20.6.1 About the company 103

20.6.2 Data Center Storage business segment 103

20.6.3 Product offering 103

20.6.4 Strength 104

20.6.5 Opportunities 104

Section 21 Emerging Vendors Analysis 105

21.1 Impact of Emerging Vendors on Worldwide Data Center Storage Market 105

21.1.1 Huawei 105

21.1.2 Fujitsu 105

21.1.3 Data Direct Network 105

21.1.4 Nimble Storage 106

21.1.5 NEC 106

Section 22 Other Vendors 107

22.1.1 American Megatrends 107

22.1.2 Lenovo 107

22.1.3 Nfina 107

22.1.4 Nimbus Data 107

22.1.5 Overland Storage 107

22.1.6 Oracle 108

22.1.7 Pure Storage 108

22.1.8 Promise Technology 108

22.1.9 Quanta Computer 108

22.1.10 Netgear 109

22.1.11 Tegile 109

22.1.12 Tintri 109

22.1.13 Toshiba 109

22.1.14 Violin Memory 109

22.1.15 X-IO Technologies 109

22.1.16 Supermicro 110

Section 23 Summary of Figures 111