Market Trends of Software-Defined Storage Industry
This section covers the major market trends shaping the Software-Defined Storage Market according to our research experts:
BFSI Sector to Witness Significant Growth
- The banks are a highly regulated operational environment with exponential data growth and require highly secure and highly available storage capabilities to integrate, scale up, and out with appliances that link together across sites. The software-defined storage solutions help improve BFSI operations, including handling massive data sets, limited access to files with encryption, and even data backup and recovery.
- In February 2021, NTT Ltd announced that it is strengthening the IT infrastructure ecosystem at one of India's premier banking institutions by deploying its software-defined infrastructure solutions. The number of such used cases is rising, providing thrust for the market's growth.
- The rising need for better management of vast data from BFSI contributes a substantial share of the software-defined storage market. The BFSI sector is anticipated to record the fastest growth during the forecast period attributed to the increasing demand for customer data analysis to achieve a competitive advantage and boost the ongoing digital transformation in the sector.
- With the increase in the digital economy, data is an essential part of the banking industry. Software-defined infrastructure and storage solutions enable global banks to rapidly access, analyze, and share on-premises data in the cloud from front-to-back office operations. Around 85% of deposit transactions in the Bank of America are being made through banking apps, ATMs, and automated channels. At the beginning of July 2021, more than 70% of Bank of America clients are actively using digital channels for more of their needs, including 72% of consumer and small business clients.
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Asia-Pacific Region to Witness Fastest Growth
- The region is experiencing rapid growth in the volume of unstructured data across various enterprises and is being stored in on-premises devices and cloud environments. Furthermore, with the proliferation of the internet of things (IoT) across the region, the data generated at the edge is drastically increasing.
- The adoption of online payments is rising exponentially, resulting in the generation of a huge amount of data daily, which the companies need to process, propelling the demand for software-defined storage solutions. For instance, the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) digital payments index (DPI), launched in January 2021, indicate the extent of digitization of payments in India; the index for September 2021 stood at 304.06 against 270.59 in March.
- Moreover, the key vendors, such as FalconStor, which provides SDS in China through Huawei, indicated that customers/enterprises in the Asia-Pacific, including China, are one of the greatest potential markets for IT services and are positive about switching to modern storage solutions. The propensity to shift is mainly to overcome challenges such as data security, recovery, and the integration of virtual and non-virtualized resources.
- The use of cloud storage is poised to increase aggressively in the region, driven by the rising number of internet users in the country. According to a survey by EY India, while 67% of the large enterprises accelerated cloud adoption, 39% of the medium-sized companies and 38% of the small companies embarked on their cloud journey.
- Emerging economies like China and India are still dependent on traditional hardware for storage and the need for digital transformation to stay up with technological advancements; these countries provide a potential commercial opportunity for software-defined storage (SDS) suppliers during the forecast period.
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