Worldwide Storage Software Forecast, 2022–2026: Overall Growth Exceeds Expectations with More Opportunity Yet to Come
This IDC study presents key figures and trends of the overall storage software market from 2022 to2026 and highlights some of the main drivers and inhibitors that the market will face."The storage software market weathered the global COVID-19 pandemic and even increased its outlook as it begins to emerge on the other side," said Greg Macatee, senior research analyst, Infrastructure Systems, Platforms, and Technologies group at IDC. "We see promising opportunity over the next several years for suppliers in the archiving, DR&P, and SDS-CS software functional markets as enterprises increasingly adopt containerized and cloud-native technologies in pursuit of greater IT scalability and digital transformation."
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- IDC Market Forecast Figure
- Executive Summary
- Advice for Technology Suppliers
- Market Forecast
- Market Context
- Drivers and Inhibitors
- Drivers
- Digital Transformation
- Cloud-Native Application Adoption
- Inhibitors
- Near-Term Global Uncertainty
- Low Forecast Growth of External Enterprise Storage Systems
- Significant Market Developments
- Changes from Prior Forecast
- Market Definition
- Data Replication and Protection Software
- Data Protection Software
- Backup and Recovery Reporting Software
- Storage Replication Software
- Host or Hypervisor-Based Replication Software
- Systems and Data Migration Software
- Fabric and Appliance-Based Replication Software
- Array-Based Replication Software
- Replication Management Software
- Archiving Software
- Email Archiving Software
- File and Other Archiving Software
- Storage Infrastructure and Device Management Software
- Storage Resource Management and Heterogeneous SAN Management Software
- Storage Resource Management and Homogeneous SAN Management Software
- Storage Device Management Software
- Virtualization and Federation Software
- Host-Based File Systems and Volume Management Software
- Storage Access and Path Management Software
- Automated Storage Tiering Software
- Storage Acceleration Software
- Other Storage Management and Infrastructure Software
- Software-Defined Storage Controller Software
- Block-Based Software-Defined Storage Controller Software
- File-Based Software-Defined Storage Controller Software
- Object-Based Software-Defined Storage Controller Software
- Hyperconvergence and Software–Defined Storage Software Platforms
- Methodology
- Historical and Forecast Market Values and Exchange Rates
- Related Research
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