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Technavio’s market research analysts predict the global data center fabric market to grow steadily during the forecast period and post a CAGR of more than 8% by 2021. This industry research report identifies the increased adoption of cloud-based services to be one of the major factors that will have a positive impact on the data center fabric market size in the coming years. Cloud-based services eliminate the need to own and manage data center infrastructure and are highly cost-effective. As a result, large enterprises, SMEs, and several government agencies are increasingly adopting cloud-based services offered by CSPs, such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, and are constantly increasing their infrastructure expenditure on data centers. Since most of these CSPs operate Tier-3 and Tier-4 data centers, they will start virtualizing their facilities to increase the utilization of the underlying IT infrastructure. This will, in turn, boost the market’s growth prospects since fabric networking provides high availability of services through dynamic allocation of virtual machines. This will lead to an increase in data center fabric market share during our forecasted period.
This market research and analysis estimates that in terms of geographical regions, the Americas will be the major revenue contributors to the market throughout the predicted period. The increased spending on data centers by the US and the rising number of data centers in Canada and Latin America will propel the growth of the market in this region.
The market is characterized by the presence of a considerable number of vendors and appears to be highly fragmented. One of the major vendors Brocade communications systems has a wide product portfolio that includes Ethernet switches, router, and FC SAN fabric switches. The company provides networking infrastructure and software, including SDN-enabled products and solutions and offers products through three major segments such as SAN products, Internet Protocol (IP) networking products, and global services. The company sells its products and services directly to end-users and also through distribution partners, including original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), systems integrators, and value-added resellers (VARs).
The leading vendors in the market are -
The other prominent vendors in the market are Arista Networks, Avaya Networks, Big Switch Networks, Extreme Networks, Gigamon, Huawei Technologies, IBM, Lenovo, Mellanox Technologies, Nokia (Alcatel-Lucent), Oracle, and Pluribus Networks.
Being a combination of hardware and software, fabric switches facilitate the secure transfer of data between network nodes through the network port. According to the analysts, this segment accounted for the major shares and dominated the market during 2016. Rising deployment of multi-core processor-based servers and virtualized servers will increase the need for Ethernet switch fabrics, which, in turn, fuels the growth of the market segment in the coming years.
During 2016, the CSPs were the major end-users of fabric switches and routers, and according to this market research study, this segment will continue to dominate the market throughout the predicted period as well. The increasing investment of major CSPs such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon in new fabric infrastructure and management software and the shift in preference of several SMEs and SMBs from data center construction towards cloud services will propel the market’s growth prospects during the forecast period. Also, the high utilization of cloud fabric will drive the market growth in this end-user segment.
PART 01: Executive summary
PART 02: Scope of the report
PART 03: Market research methodology
PART 04: Introduction
PART 05: Market landscape
PART 06: Market segmentation by product
PART 07: Market segmentation by end-user
PART 08: Geographical segmentation
PART 09: Market drivers
PART 10: Impact of drivers
PART 11: Market challenges
PART 12: Impact of drivers and challenges
PART 13: Market trends
PART 14: Vendor landscape
PART 15: Appendix
PART 16: Explore Technavio
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