FEATURE: STORAGE
Year-on-year, the MEA x86 server
market witnessed 2% growth in
value, but a 4% decline in volume
in 2015
The converged systems market,
which includes hyper-converged
appliances, grew by 6% year on
year in 2015
The Kingdom’s enterprise
hardware market suffered a 12%
decline in value year on year in
2015 and IDC forecasts a further
17% decline for 2016
Source: IDC, 2016
WITH WIDE RANGE OF
CHOICES OF FLASH
STORAGE AVAILABLE
IN MARKET AND THE
PARTNER PROGRAMS
OFFERED BY DIFFERENT
VENDORS, CHANNEL
PARTNERS ARE GEARING
UP TO TAKE FLASH
STORAGE TO THE
MARKET
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and only option for high-performance
workloads such as VDI, transactional
databases and as storage for high
demand virtual servers, essentially,
anywhere we want shared storage to
operate extremely quickly.
Flash storage enables unprecedented
data-mobility speeds, allowing data
to be shared and accessed across
functions. It also prevents spikes in
latency as more users access the
data. Flash storage will gain higher
acceptance as a mainstream option
only once its price drops. With wide
range of choices of flash storage
available in market and the partner
programs offered by different vendors,
channel partners are gearing up to take
flash storage to the market.
Cloud storage
To meet the rising demands due of data
explosion, enterprises are increasingly
opting for Big Data and Cloud storage.
Due to this increased demand,
enterprise storage is witnessing
tremendous innovation.
Enterprise cloud storage providers
promise to reduce infrastructure and
management costs while improving
accessibility of the existing data. Cloud
computing comes into focus only when
we think about what IT always need:
a way to increase capacity or add
capabilities on the go without investing
in new infrastructure, training new
personnel, or licensing new software
etc. Cloud computing gives much
better options to the customer when it
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