Analyst Reports

Springboard Research predicts the China Cloud storage services market to grow from US$6.05 million in 2009 to US$208.54 million in 2014, representing a CAGR of 103%.

Over the next four years, while the digital universe grows by a factor of almost five, total IT budgets worldwide will only grow by a factor of 1.2, and IT staff by a factor of 1.1. This is a problem.

The 451 Group: Datacenter Virtualization Ushers in a New Era of Highend Enterprise 'Virtual' Storage

In this Spotlight Report, Simon Robinson of The 451 Group examines the concept of the virtual datacenter and how its evolution affects existing IT operations. In that context, he assesses how EMC's new Symmetrix V-Max addresses changing customer needs.

The Wikibon Community says Symmetrix V-Max - Virtualized Data Center of Future Scale

In this note, Wikibon Project analysts David Vellante, David Floyer, and Nick Allen provide their perspective on the EMC Symmetrix V-Max announcement. The analysts review the technology, and assess the potential business impact of this announcement.

The 451 Group says EMC optimizes Symmetrix for the Virtualized

In this Impact Report from The 451 Group, analyst Simon Robinson evaluates the architecture and features of the new Symmetrix V-Max against customer requirements and industry direction. His report concludes with a SWOT analysis of the new product and EMC's strategy

IDC says EMC Symmetrix V-Max Infrastructure is Designed for Virtual and Physical Realities

Get a clear overview of the new Symmetrix V-Max in this detailed white paper from IDC analyst Benjamin Woo. Woo explains how the Symmetrix V-Max enables a dynamic environment that can accommodate the rapid growth of virtualized resources.

ESG Lab Validation Report: EMC Symmetrix V-Max 24xForever Storage for Virtualized Data Centers

See the results of ESG’s hands-on testing of Symmetrix V-Max storage systems. This report assesses the systems’ scalability and flexibility, management and provisioning, automated online VLUN migration, and Virtual Matrix Architecture.

Clipper: EMC V-Max brings new era in high-end storage

The Clipper Group's Michael Fisch analyzes the introduction of the Symmetrix V-Max as a reassertion of the value that high-end storage architectures can deliver to IT. According to Fisch, while high-end storage has traditionally supported the world's most mission-critical applications, it now plays an even greater role—as the infrastructure supporting massive roll-out of virtual servers across the world's datacenters.

A report by BroadGroup predicts a 68% data center capacity increase in Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam by 2013.

Worldwide virtualization software revenue will increase 43% from US$1.9 billion in 2008 to $2.7 billion in 2009, according to Gartner, Inc. Global virtualization penetration is on pace to reach 20% in 2009 from 12% in 2008.