Technavio’s latest report on the global redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID) controller card market provides an analysis on the most important trends expected to impact the market outlook from 2016-2020. Technaviodefines an emerging trend as a factor that has the potential to significantly impact the market and contribute to its growth or decline.

The global RAID controller card market mark the presence of many reputed vendors such as Avago Technologies (Broadcom), Intel, Fujitsu, Dell, andHP. Avago Technologies dominates the market due to its acquisition of LSI Technologies in 2014. With big names like Intel, Fujitsu, Dell, and HP, continuous innovation is required to become the leader in the market.

In 2016, Broadcom introduced the first NVMe/SATA/SAS-based controllers. As there is a growing popularity of flash-based storage technologies, this introduction by the company will help it lead the global RAID controller card market.

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The top three emerging trends driving the global RAID controller card market according to Technavio hardware and semiconductorresearch analysts are:

• Increasing popularity of flash-based storage
• Increased adoption of IoT
• Emergence of containerized data centers

Increasing popularity of flash-based storage
Solid state drive (SSD) storage or flash storage offers greater efficiency than traditional HDD storage devices. In 2015, the cost of flash-based storage was greater than that of HDD-based storage arrays. Vendors are continuously decreasing their product prices due to the increased demand for storage infrastructure in the market. With the increased use of mission-critical applications, flash-based storage arrays offer 40 times better than hard disk input/output (I/O) performance and around 50% reduction in power consumption.

Sunil Kumar Singh, a lead analyst at Technavio for research on embedded systems, says, “Due to the higher cost involved in procuring flash-based storage systems, it will experience a higher growth in large and mega data centers. However, the price of these systems will drop by 5%-10% YoY, resulting in an increased demand for flash storage during the period 2018-2020. The overall market will experience a steady growth in the adoption of flash and traditional storage systems, where flash will add more revenue in the coming years.”

Increased adoption of IoT
Technavio researchers predict there will be around 30 billion internet-connected devices by 2019. This will give a major boost to theglobal data center market. The use of RFID sensors in logistics and warehouses in the late 1990s had put the focus on IoT. RFID is used to tag, track, connect, and read objects. The growing number of connected devices will lead to the generation of big chunks of data. Connected cars, homes, and smart cities are gaining popularity. As a result, many industries such as manufacturing, utilities, retail, automotive, and social media are using IoT for increased data transfer. By 2019, IoT-enabled devices will increase the data center traffic by 40 times.

Cloud computing and data analytics play a major role in connected reality. Data centers are constantly upgraded to meet IoT data storage and processing requirements. “Many businesses are involved in establishing data centers worldwide to deal with the increasing need for the storage of IoT data. IoT will boost the establishment of distributed data centers, large data centers, and micro data centers worldwide,” adds Sunil.

Emergence of containerized data centers
A containerized data center is a portable data center pre-installed inside a shipping container. These data centers are part of a modular data center in which each module is a container that can host power, IT, and cooling equipment. These data centers are available in the lengths of 40 feet and 20 feet and are delivered to end-users on demand.

Enterprises are building modular data centers that comprise many data center container modules in a single facility. The cost of these facilities is around USD 7 million but may vary based on requirement. The installation to deployment time for these modules is less than six months. A wide range of computing equipment and racks are hosted within a containerized data center facility.

The cost of deploying a containerized data center facility is less than the cost of building or renovating a traditional data center facility. Containerized data centers are easy to relocate from one location to another and can be managed centrally. Microsoft’s Virginia data center is a modular data center comprising multiple data center containers.

Source: Technavio
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