?

$6.2BILLION

$1.4BILLION

2014

in 2019

34.6%

an estimated Compound Annual

Growth Rate (CAGR) of

THE INDUSTRY’S TAKE ONSOFTWARE-DEFINED STORAGE

KEY CHARACTERISTICS OF A TRUE SDS SOLUTION

1. Does not require any proprietary hardware components

2. Should be able to run on multiple (virtual and physical) hardware instances

3. Is a standalone or autonomous system

Source: IDC

Source: Fifth Annual Software-Defined Storage Survey

What are the primary reasons your organizationchose to deploy storage virtualization software?

The ability to add storage capacity without business disruption.

SPENDING FOR SDS IN STORAGE VIRTUALIZATION AND VIRTUAL SANS IS ON THE RISE

Software-Defined Storage and storage virtualizationare deemed very urgent now:

expect similar levels of spending on SDS technologies incorporated

within server SANs / virtual SANs & converged storage.

81%72%of organizations are making

important investments in these technologies throughout 2015.

Human Error

10%

20%

40%

70%

60%

50%

30%

HVAC Failure / Water Leaks(heating, ventilating, and

air conditioning)

Construction Fire / Smoke Vandalism

61%

36%

14%8%

3%

Many organizations are moving away from storage functions tied to specific hardware. In fact, year-to-year comparisons

reveal more pronounced use of Software-Defined Storage and the prerequisite storage virtualization software for purposes of

achieving continuous availability, faster performance and higher efficiency.

Source: Fifth Annual Software-Defined Storage Survey

Source: Fifth Annual Software-Defined Storage Survey

Source: Fifth Annual Software-Defined Storage Survey

The complexity which accompanies data growth and diversity is taking a big toll.

61% of respondents in the fifth annual State of SDS Survey indicated that human error was behind application and data center outages. In fact, downtime resulting from these errors and accidents were cited with nearly twice the frequency of heating, ventilation and air conditioning failures. It’s clear from these findings that the automation and workflow orchestration provided by SDS platforms can significantly reduce the occurrence of human errors, and with that, a marked decrease in downtime.

We asked IT buyers, WHAT ARE THE DRIVERS BEHIND MIGRATION TO SDS?

RATIONALE FOR VIRTUALIZING STORAGE – AVOID BUSINESS DISRUPTION + REDUCE COSTS

Supporting synchronous mirroring and metro clusters for high availability to ensure business continuity.

Asynchronous data replication for remote site disaster recovery.

Cost reductions made possible when separating data services from the storage hardware.

The total software-defined marketIS ONLY EXPECTED TO GROW.

HUMAN ERRORSDRIVE THE NEED FOR GREATER AUTOMATION

DataCore SANsymphony™-V

One Software-Defined Storage Platform Across Your Entire Infrastructure.

CLOUDSANHYPER-CONVERGED

VIRTUAL MACHINES

PHYSICALSERVERS

VIRTUAL DESKTOPS

FLASH DISKS FLASH DISKS FLASH DISKS

UNIFIED STORAGE SERVICES

DataCore Software is a leader in software-defined storage. More

than 10,000 customer sites around the world use DataCore’s adaptive

and self-learning and healing technology to take the pain out of manual

processes and achieve the promise of the new software-defined data

center through its hardware-agnostic architecture.

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