Technavio
has announced the top six leading vendors for the global
storage virtualization market in their latest research
report. This report also lists four other prominent vendors who are
expected to contribute to this market’s growth over the forecast period.
To identify the top vendors, Technavio’s market research analysts have
considered the top contributors to the overall revenue of this market.
To calculate the market size, the report considers the revenue generated
from the implementation of storage virtualization appliances and
software in Americas, EMEA, and APAC.
“In a traditional data center environment, migrating data from one drive
to other involves operational downtime (temporary termination of user
access to data). In case of large amounts of data, it can take even days
to transfer the data to a new drive. Storage virtualization aids in
smooth data migration without incurring any downtime. To tap the
attractive market, resellers have started to offer storage
virtualization as a service for enterprises procuring new systems.
Technavio researchers predict this trend to help the market reach over
USD 10 billion in revenue by 2019,” said Rakesh Kumar Panda, one of
Technavio’s lead analysts for data
center research.
Six leading vendors in the global storage virtualization market:
Citrix
Citrix is a global organization known for virtualization solutions such
as its XenApp, XenDesktop, and XenMobile products. Citrix entered the
data center market through the acquisition of XenSource, an
enterprise-grade virtual infrastructure solution. In a data center
environment, virtualization of servers that run business applications
and associated storage systems that store application data have gained
higher traction over the years.
In a Citrix XenServer environment, a database is created on top of the
physical storage to connect virtual servers to the underlying storage
infrastructure. Citrix is constantly innovating to ensure efficient
functioning of XenSource open-architecture with the management tools
used by data center operators. Many storage virtualization vendors (such
as DataCore) are working with Citrix to enhance the performance of their
virtualized storage environments. Through its acquisition of Sanbolic,
Citrix entered the software-defined storage space in storage load
balancing for optimized delivery of application-specific workloads.
HP
HP is a global organization that leads the market for storage
infrastructure products and software. The company has collaborated with
VMware to develop innovative tier storage and unique storage
virtualization technologies that help enterprises optimize their return
on investments. Together, HP and VMware provide comprehensive,
certified, and proven virtual infrastructure solutions. HP’s solutions
reduce costs, enable automation, ease data migration, simplify
management, improve application performance, and help achieve
operational balance in a data center environment. HP storage
virtualization solutions at the array, network, and file systems levels
aid in dynamic data movement. VMware Storage vMotion works with HP
storage virtualization solutions to move virtual machine disks across
heterogeneous disk arrays and enables maintenance of storage
infrastructure with no downtime.
Some storage virtualization solutions offered by the company include HP
StorageWorks SVSP, which offers cost-effective storage virtualization
solution for better storage management, increased utilization, and
mobility of virtual environments; and HP StorageWorks with built-in
virtualization that improves storage utilization and lowers cost of
ownership. The company also offers SDS through its HP StoreOnce and HP
StoreVirtual VSAs.
IBM
It is a global IT infrastructure vendor offering storage virtualization
solutions for companies of all sizes. IBM offers the SAN Volume
Controller with built-in IBM Spectrum Virtualize software to improve the
flexibility of storage infrastructure and data economics. The product
has a single point of control to deliver high availability and storage
resource utilization. Some of its benefits include centralized
management, uninterrupted data migration, instant recovery from disk
backups, storage capacity that is up to five times higher, and
interoperability. IBM also offers scalable virtualized, flash-optimized
storage systems to consolidate workloads for ease of management into
single systems to achieve improved performance, and high availability
through reduced costs.
IBM offers Tivoli Storage Manager, a storage management software for
virtual storage environments to protect VMware and Hyper-V storage
virtual machines. The product provides snapshots of virtual machines,
simplifies virtual machine backups, and enables VMware vCloud Director.
The company has also integrated SDS with its products.
Microsoft
Microsoft implements storage virtualization through Windows Server 2012
R2 (Hyper-V). Virtualization is enabled through the file and storage
services in the Windows Server product. It also supports creation of
storage tiers and automates the writing of frequently read storage
blocks on solid-state storage devices. This product has a Storage QoS
(quality of service) feature to prevent inappropriate use of I/O
capabilities. Its other features include offloaded data transfer, ReFS
(resilient file system), Live Storage Migration, Hyper-V Replica,
Hyper-V Recovery Manager, and storage spaces thin provisioning and trim.
Oracle
Oracle, which is known for its database management systems, is also
involved in the design and manufacture of infrastructure hardware and
software for data center environments. The company offers a VM platform
that enables sharing of storage repositories between server pools, where
the storage is mapped to virtual machines through the user interface.
The company also offers Oracle VM Storage Connect for simplified
management of virtual environments. Oracle provides an abstraction layer
through which the administration can easily perform resource
provisioning in an efficient manner. The Oracle VM Storage Connect
plug-in exists in Oracle VM Server closer to the actual storage. There
are two types of Oracle VM Storage Connect plug-ins: file systems and
storage arrays.
VMware
This leading global virtualization-based organization offers VMware
vSphere, Virtual SAN, and vCenter Site Recovery Manager for data center
storage environments. vSphere storage virtualization combines the
features of vSphere with API abstraction layer for physical storage
assets to be addressed, managed, and optimized in a virtualization
deployment. VMware storage virtualization technology offers benefits
such as improved resource utilization, increased application uptime, and
leveraging existing storage infrastructure. vSphere VMFS (Virtual
Machine File System) provides access to shared virtual machine storage
for multiple vSphere servers concurrently. It also groups storage based
on user-defined policies; performs storage migrations, eliminating I/O
bottlenecks and frees up storage capacity; and increases virtual storage
utilization through dynamic allocation and provisioning of physical
storage capacity.
VMware also offers VMware Virtual SAN, which is a hypervisor-converged
storage for vSphere virtual infrastructure with benefits such as lower
cost of ownership and higher scalability and performance, along with
vCenter Site Recovery Manager, which is a disaster recovery solution for
virtualized applications.
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