Scale-Out NAS Market Size

Scale-Out NAS Market Analysis

The scale-out NAS market was valued at USD 16.2 billion in 2020, at a CAGR of 21% during the forecast period of 2021 - 2026. With relation to all enterprise products, including network storage, there is a trend towards reduced costs with greater features and capabilities. Traditional storage solutions are less attractive than in the past to end-users, who are now looking for better scalability. The trend is moving away from traditional storage systems to software-defined infrastructures which will allow managing much more storage capacity while maintaining integration and management costs under control.

• Rising demand for high throughput rate, increased I/O (Input/output) capacity, and low latency is driving the market. Users administer the cluster as a single system and manage the data through a global namespace or distributed file system. Within a cluster array, files can be distributed and data can be clear across nodes for improved throughput. For instance, the three-strong Dell EMC X-Series scales up to 20PB with 144 nodes, with capacities from 12TB to 144TB per node and a claimed throughput of up to 200GBps. These features provide high processing which limit the usage of traditional storage solution.
• Big Data Analytics drives the growth of Advanced Parallel Storage Platforms. The vast quantity of big data has no value unless it is tagged or analyzed. According to the Accenture study, 79% of enterprise executives agree that companies that do not embrace Big Data will lose their competitive position and could face extinction. So, a software component designed to store data across multiple networked servers and to facilitate high-performance access through simultaneous, coordinated input/output operations (IOPS) between clients and storage nodes is needed across industries.
• For instance, Flytxt's big data analytics platform follows a hybrid architecture combining scale-out clusters running Hadoop with RDBMS and an in-memory database for real-time transactional data processing.
• However, scale-out NAS systems carry fairly substantial licensing fees that are tacked onto the incremental costs associated with adding networking equipment. Also, there is a higher utility cost (Electricity and cooling) by which many enterprises hesitate to replace a substitute for traditional storage systems. Plus, scale-out systems tend to lack the functionality of well-established scale-up NAS systems which restraints the growth of the market.