Disk-based storage systems are losing their appeal as businesses increasingly shift their critical storage workloads to #allflash arrays. IDC reports that the worldwide market for enterprise storage systems dropped 6.7 percent on year-over-year basis in the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2016 before settling at $11.1 billion. While sales may have dropped, the market's appetite for more capacity remains unsated. Vendors shipped 52.4 exabytes worth of storage capacity in Q4, an annual increase of 18.3 percent. "2016 represented a year of considerable change for the enterprise storage systems market," observed Liz Conner, research manager of IDC's Storage Systems unit. "While the broader #enterprisestorage systems market has been impacted by headwinds, companies continue to increase their investments in several key areas, such as #softwaredefinedstorage, #cloudbasedstorage, #allflash storage systems, and #convergedsystems ."
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