Mega Trends to support Unified Communications market growth in APAC

UC-as-a-Service (UCaaS) solutions

Unequivocally, 2015 will see strong growth in the Cloud computing, Big Data Analytics, Social media, Internet of things, and Mobility (CASIM). Frost & Sullivan believes that CASIM will mark a positive impact on the unified communications (UC) market, making UC more critical to the businesses than ever before. “UC will no more be just about… Continue reading Mega Trends to support Unified Communications market growth in APAC

Emulex Gains Fibre Channel Market Share

Emulex Corporation (NYSE: ELX), a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, today announced that it has gained more than two and a half points of Fibre Channel revenue market share over its nearest competitor during the fourth quarter of calendar 2014, according to the Crehan Research Q4 2014 Server-class Adapter and LOM market share… Continue reading Emulex Gains Fibre Channel Market Share

SimpliVity Solidifies Leadership Position within Hyperconverged Infrastructure Market

SimpliVity OmniCube

SimpliVity, a leader in hyperconverged infrastructure for the software-defined data center, today announced that the company has experienced record-breaking growth for 2014, highlighted by a nearly 500 percent increase in sales and customer acquisition over 2013. In addition, SimpliVity realized massive global expansion, closing the year with operations in Asia, resellers in nearly 50 countries… Continue reading SimpliVity Solidifies Leadership Position within Hyperconverged Infrastructure Market

Worldwide Software-Defined Networking Market Expected to Reach $8 Billion by 2018

Software-defined networking (SDN) continues to gain ground within the broader enterprise and cloud service provider markets for datacenter networking. According to a new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC), the worldwide SDN market for the enterprise and cloud service provider segments will grow from $960 million in 2014 to over $8 billion by 2018, representing… Continue reading Worldwide Software-Defined Networking Market Expected to Reach $8 Billion by 2018

Pure Storage Raises $225M, Valued at Over $3B by Leading Public Market Investors

Pure Storage, the all-flash enterprise storage array company, has closed a $225 million Series F funding round, at a pre-money valuation of over $3 billion. The round included contributions from previous public market investors including T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. and Tiger Global and new investor, Wellington Management Company. The round also included participation from… Continue reading Pure Storage Raises $225M, Valued at Over $3B by Leading Public Market Investors

File and Object-Based Storage Market Growth Outpaces Overall Enterprise Disk Storage Systems Market

The worldwide file- and object-based storage (FOBS) market continues to gain momentum with revenues exceeding $23 billion in 2013 and forecast to reach $38 billion in 2017. According to new research from International Data Corporation (IDC), growth in the overall enterprise storage systems market can be traced directly to the shift to FOBS.. “The future… Continue reading File and Object-Based Storage Market Growth Outpaces Overall Enterprise Disk Storage Systems Market

New Dimensional Research Report Depicts 2013 as the Year of VDI in the Mid-Market

Pivot3, a leading provider of VDI converged storage and compute appliances, today announced the results of a research study conducted by Dimensional Research that found more than 80 percent of companies surveyed are currently using or considering Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) as part of their IT strategy. A large proportion of mid-market sized businesses are… Continue reading New Dimensional Research Report Depicts 2013 as the Year of VDI in the Mid-Market

SDN and Virtualization of Evolved Packet Core to be a $400 Million Market by 2018

Cloud Computing, Virtualization and Software Defined Networking – three sides of the same coin – will soon bring the benefits of IT evolution to the mobile broadband EPC. In the past, cellular networks were, by necessity, hierarchical with centralized control and data structures. These architectures required high performance, custom hardware to process, and route traffic.… Continue reading SDN and Virtualization of Evolved Packet Core to be a $400 Million Market by 2018