Networked storage will form 12 to 15 per cent of IT budget
Networked storage will form 12 to 15 per cent of IT budget
The latest analysis of the networked storage market from Meta Group has been released and it shows the market to be healthy.
Despite the recent ratification of iSCSI, Meta Group's MetaspectrumSM market evaluation believes that the Fibre Channel protocol will remain the most prominent architecture for a storage area network (SAN). They predict that Fibre Channel will continue to dominate the market until 2006 or 2007.
In its evaluation of the SAN market Meta Group evaluated 13 companies in the market and found that EMC is the leader. Sounding a warning though, Meta said the SAN market will change during the next 24 months and this change will be seen in the storage management software market.
Meta also found that enterprises are adopting SANs as they are considered necessary for running integrated applications.
Meta Group carried out an analysis of the network attached storage (NAS) market as well.
"There are clear leaders, distant challengers and distant followers in the enterprise network attached storage market, said Phil Goodwin the author of the report.
In 2002 Meta found that the NAS market grew "modestly" and it puts this down to the global economic climate, but also because any storage spending was being spent on SAN, not NAS.
The market report found that storage decisions are being made predominantly by the CIO, more than 70 per cent of decisions are given final approval by the CIO. Meta Group believes this is because companies are attaching high importance to their storage infrastructure, especially as it consumes between 12 and 15 per cent of their IT spending.
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