Adoption of storage virtualisation picks up globally

Global storage virtualisation vendors are offering software-defined storage (SDS) to simplify management of the virtualised environment, says Infiniti Research. In the report on the global storage virtualisation market available from ReportsnReports, Infiniti Research notes that SDS is a form of storage virtualisation that separates software services such as data protection, data management, placement of data, and input/output (I/O) capabilities from the underlying physical storage infrastructure.

An increase in big data and the Internet of Things (IoT) will prompt enterprises to implement SDS and traditional virtualisation techniques in upcoming years, the research firm said. The report authors predict the global storage virtualisation market will grow at a CAGR of more than 24% from 2015 to 2019. According to the report, many data centre operators are implementing virtualisation technology to reduce the cost and the power consumption required to operate data centres. Virtualisation also offers flexibility, simplified management, elimination of vendor lock-in, and ease of data migration. Server virtualisation is the most common type of virtualisation implemented by enterprises worldwide but storage and network virtualisation have also gained momentum.

Storage virtualisation offers higher utilisation of storage resources and helps in the consolidation of data centre facilities through reduced power consumption and cost. However, virtualisation can challenge security and ironically cause more more complexity, as too many virtual machines (VMs) increase manageability issues.

Key players in the global storage virtualisation market include HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle and VMware. Other prominent vendors in the market are DataCore Software, EMC (purchased by Dell this year), Hitachi Data Systems, and NetApp.

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Buy Global Storage Virtualization Market 2015-2019 Further, the report states that a virtualized environment is challenging the security of many enterprises. Data center environments are growing in terms of complexity. The deployment of many virtual machines (VMs) can result in a VM sprawl. VM sprawl is a phenomenon where the virtual machines cannot be controlled by the administrator.