Global SMB Network-attached Storage Market 2011-2015 - Market Research Report

The Global SMB Network-attached Storage market is to grow at a CAGR of 51.1 percent over the period 2011-2015. One of the key factors contributing to this market growth is the introduction of specialized network attached storage servers. The Global SMB NAS market has also been witnessing evolution of scale-out NAS devices. However, increased clogging of enterprise networks could pose a challenge to the growth of this market.

With the increasing need for higher storage and the increasing amount of digital content in the enterprises, there is a need for better ways to store the complex data in the enterprises. Enterprises are implementing object-based storage, which uses the concept of block storage and a pointer table for storing the location of the data. This increases the efficiency of the storage and removes the redundancy of digital data in the enterprises. Furthermore, with the interoperability of operating systems, a common storage mechanism had to be implemented, and this methodology was found to be very efficient among all the other mechanisms.

With the rapid technological developments in Network-attached storage (NAS) devices, an increasing number of features are being incorporated in the servers. The evolution of NAS servers is leading to high-performance servers being implemented across enterprises. The servers that have NAS devices attached to them are capable of addressing large numbers of client requests in a single instance. The service capability of the servers increases considerably and a reduction in the latency period is observed. The responses are received more quickly and high-performance computing is supported across the network. The response time is faster because these storage devices are connected to the local area network (LAN), but they have a slower response time than the local disk storage.

Report Scope

TechNavio's report, the Global SMB Network-attached Storage Market 2011-2015, has been prepared based on an in-depth analysis of the market with inputs from industry experts. The report covers the Americas, and the EMEA and APAC regions; it also covers the Global SMB NAS market landscape and its growth prospects in the coming years. The report also includes a discussion of the key vendors operating in this market.

Key vendors dominating this market space include Buffalo Technology Inc., Netgear Inc., QNAP Systems Inc., and Synology Inc. The other vendors mentioned in the report are EMC Corp., Thecus Technology Corp., NetApp Inc., IBM Corp., HP Co., and Hitachi Ltd.