India’s External Storage market witnessed decline but AFA segment grew in Q4 2017: IDC
According to IDC's latest Asia/Pacific Quarterly Enterprise Storage Systems Tracker Q4 2017 release, India's external storage market witnessed a decline of 4.7% year on year (YoY by vendor revenue) and stood at US$74.1 million in Q4 2017.
Market witnessed a YoY decline due to lesser spend in banking and manufacturing verticals in Q4, 2017. However, these segments still are amongst the highest contributors to the external storage market along with professional services and telecommunications industries. Increased adoption of third platform technologies is pushing organizations to improve performance and optimize storage infrastructure to achieve its business objectives and respond to changing business needs faster with lower TCO.
"Adoption of All Flash Arrays (AFA) is growing exponentially and becoming mainstream in storage deployments across enterprises to address the demand for workload/application acceleration with high IOPS and minimal latency," says Dileep Nadimpalli, Associate Research Manager, Enterprise Infrastructure.
Market witnessed a continued shift towards All Flash Arrays (AFA). AFA segment saw a significant growth at 54.9% YoY in Q4 2017 contributing to 23.4% of the overall external storage market. AFAs are getting deployed across most verticals with banking, telecommunications and professional services contributing to most of these deployments in Q4 2017. Flash footprint also continues to increase in hybrid flash arrays (HFA), as end-users are procuring a higher proportion of SSD's vs HDD's to achieve a better price to performance ratio.
High-end storage segment witnessed a high double-digit growth of 39.2% in Q4 2017 due to large deployments in telecommunications and banking industries. Consumption Models for Storage are impacting both midrange and entry-level segments leading to a YoY decline in Q4 2017.
"Digital Transformation (DX) will drive customers to look for Storage requirements and innovative Storage technologies. Adoption for HCI, Object Oriented Storage, Software- Defined Storage grew in the Indian market addressing the new-age storage requirements of customers," says Ranganath Sadasiva, Director, Enterprise Solutions, IDC India.
Dell Inc. continued to be the market leader with a 27.6% market share by vendor revenue, but it, however, witnessed a YoY decline in Q4 2017. Hewlett Packard Enterprise and NetApp saw a significant growth predominantly driven by deals from banking and telecommunications industry.
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