The data storage and backup world is taking the world by storm with its astonishingly increasing sales in the first quarter of the year 2019. Hyperconverged storage solution have been bought by the enterprises around the globe.
There are reasons why businesses are going for hyper converged infrastructure, some of which are
Hyper converged systems brought in a revenue of 3.75 billion US Dollars, and it shows some serious progress. As compared to the last year’s first quarter, the hyper converged systems have come up to 46.7% sales which means a lot.
Talking about the leading companies which have been selling the hyper converged systems, there are three big names at the top.
Dell pocketed a revenue of $586.7 in the first quarter of 2019 with a market share of 32.2 %.
Last year it was $ 357.7 and 28.8 % respectively.
When we see Nutanix stats, it says $255.7 revenue in 2019 first quarter and a market share of 14.0 %
Last year these values were $250.9 and 20.2 % respectively.
HPE stands at $ 83.5 revenue in the first quarter of 2019 and its market share is 4.6%
Compared with last year’s $ 60.1 revenue and 4.9 % market share.
Seeing these statistics, we can get the idea of how many enterprise and businesses are shifting to the hyper converged systems. The total revenue of hyper converged systems including these three giants and the rest of the markets’ sales, the revenue in the first quarter of 2019 is $1,824.5 with a market share of 100.0 %
Last year in 2018’s first quarter, the revenue stood at $ 1,244.0 and the difference speaks for itself.
What we see as a trend here is that enterprises are looking for a storage solution which gives them an appliance that is a ready to go appliance.
In addition to it, the businesses want a solution that offers a set of features with in one setup so that they do not have to buy multiple systems or devices for one solution.
As hyper converged systems include the three main functions including network, compute and storage, it has become the hottest infrastructure for data storage of 2019.
As businesses are growing faster than ever, so is increasing the amount and importance of data which need to be stored and backed up. Also the risks to data security are on the rise. It therefore requires an efficient, redundant, secure data storage system like hyper converged systems.