Storage virtualisation market poised for strong growth
Cost reduction, staff resource constraints and burgeoning volumes of data plus a aims to decouple stored data from users driving virtualisation
Growing IT labour costs coupled with concerns around reliability and performance will make the market for storage virtualisation continue its solid growth rate, according to a survey by F5 Networks.
The application Delivery Networking firm says that its survey showed that the primary reasons for enterprise interest in storage virtualisation include cost reduction, staff resource constraints and burgeoning volumes of data plus a drive to decouple stored data from users.
F5 found that 37% of respondents have a current solution and predicted that storage virtualisation in
To put the storage issue into context, just over a quarter (28%) of respondents in
Just over a third (37%) of European respondents have no datacentre consolidation plans even though costs and power consumption were cited as key storage-related issues.
Encouragingly, companies reported high success rates when introducing storage virtualisation to their businesses; 93% of all European companies reported achieving at least one or more of the original goals set at the beginning of the project. Examples of this cited were reducing cost and staff time associated with storage.
Commented Nigel Burmeister, Director of Product Marketing at F5, "IT managers have moved beyond early exploration, and are now achieving real benefits from mainstream storage virtualisation projects."