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Global Media and Entertainment Disk Storage Market
Frost & Sullivan, Feb 2012, Pages: 175
Increasing Use of Video Across Media Verticals Stimulates Market Growth
This research service covers disk storage solutions including DAS, NAS and SAN, used by customer segments with the media and entertainment disk storage market. The customer segments include professional video, mobile entertainment, Internet media, publishing, advertising, and others. The research evaluates forecasts by revenues, units, pricing and region from 2008 to 2016 with 2011 as the base year. Factors driving and restraining the growth of the market along with trends and key challenges are identified and discussed. Among all verticals, the professional video segment is elaborated upon and discussed in detail.
KEY QUESTIONS THIS STUDY WILL ANSWER
- Is the market growing, how long will it continue to grow and at what rate?
- Are the existing competitors structured correctly to meet customer needs?
- What are the challenges that the vendors in this market need to address? What are some of the key drivers and restraints for this market?
- How will the structure of the market change with time? Is it ripe for acquisitions?
- Are the products/services offered today meeting customer needs or is there additional development needed?
- Are the vendors in the space ready to go it alone, or do they need partnerships to take their business to the next level?
MARKET OVERVIEW
- A disk-based storage product can be defined as an array of disks coupled with storage management software that transforms the appliance into a high performance system. However, the type of storage required depends on the application and the type of data to be stored.
- For the purpose of this study, Frost & Sullivan will focus only on disk-based storage systems for the media and entertainment (M&E) vertical, provided by software vendors such as IBM, EMC, HP, and Dell among others as well as M&E storage specialist companies such as Avid, DataDirect Networks
(DDN), Harmonic (by virtue of its acquisition of Omneon) and so on.
- This study does not include revenues from tape-based storage solutions or other alternative storage media such as optical discs, services, virtualization software, revenues from disk drive manufacturers such as Seagate, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), or un-branded disk storage solutions.
- The end-user segments discussed in this research service for the total media and entertainment disk storage market include professional video storage (used by media content producers and distributors), mobile entertainment, Internet media, publishing houses, and advertising, among others.
- This research service also analyzes in detail the professional video storage segment. This segment includes specialized disk storage solutions used by verticals such as broadcast, cable, satellite, DTT, IPTV, and post-production.
Storage in these segments is used across diverse applications ranging from content acquisition to production, delivery, and content archiving, among others. The definitions for the different storage architectures are provided below.
NAS:
Network-attached storage (NAS) comprises hard-disks accompanied by management software and allows accessing of files over a network. NAS is typically popular with small and medium businesses.
SAN:
Storage-area Network (SAN) is a high-performance storage network, where files are transferred between storage units and servers, independent of the local area network. Normally it is used for missioncritical applications.
DAS:
Direct-attached storage (DAS) is the type of storage where storage units form an integral part of the host computer or is connected directly to a server. DAS is popular on account of its pricing and is suitable for locally situated files, which do not require sharing information across geographies.
Clustered Storage:
A clustered storage typically consists of multiple autonomous nodes, each comprising disk storage, connectivity, memory and CPU, which are then controlled with a software file management system. The result is a single merged storage unit, to which more nodes can be added and the components of the nodes can be scaled independently or in conjunction with those of other nodes.
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