DUBLIN, Dec. 17, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- The "AI-Powered Storage Market by Offering (Hardware, Software), Storage System (DAS, NAS, SAN), Storage Architecture (File & Object-Based Storage), Storage Medium, End User, and Region (North America, Europe, APAC, RoW) - Global Forecast to 2024" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.

The global AI-powered storage market is expected to grow from USD 10.4 billion in 2019 to USD 34.5 billion by 2024; growing at a CAGR of 27.1%.

Massive growth in data volumes need for global enterprise infrastructure to refresh their storage architecture, increasing adoption of cloud-based services, and growing demand for AI in HPC data centers have created a demand for AI-powered storage solutions. Limited AI hardware experts and the lack of data security in cloud and server-based services can be a few restraints for the AI-powered storage market.

There are a lot of opportunities for the AI-powered storage market including the growing number of cross-industry partnerships and collaborations and the availability and rapid development of useful data analysis tools. The unreliability of AI algorithms and concerns regarding data privacy are the challenges for the AI-powered storage market.

Intel Corporation (US), NVIDIA Corporation (US), IBM (US), Samsung Electronics (South Korea), Pure Storage (US), NetApp (US), Micron Technology (US), CISCO (US), Toshiba (Japan), Hitachi (Japan), Lenovo (China), Dell Technologies (US), and HPE (US) are a few major players in the AI-powered storage market.

AI-powered storage market for Network-attached Storage (NAS) is expected to grow at highest CAGR during the forecast period

The demand for evolved NAS systems is increasing in order to cope with the growth of unstructured data. NAS is a dedicated storage device with multiple racks of storage media and is set up onto a dedicated network for storing the data. Scale-out is an improved technique in NAS devices, enabling capacity expansion based on end-users' requirements. This is achieved with the help of clustered nodes; as a result, there is a reduction in the upgrading cost. Small businesses and medium-sized enterprises are gradually adapting cloud-based NAS storage solutions owing to their features such as the ease of use, automated data backup, simple server setup procedure, and good collaboration.

Healthcare market for enterprises is expected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period

AI in the healthcare ecosystem allows for a multitude of benefits, including automating tasks and analyzing patient data sets to deliver faster healthcare at a lower cost. Healthcare organizations have started improving the storage and management of their data for analytics and AI purposes. New healthcare offerings such as collaborative solutions through mobile devices, video conferencing, and built-in applications lead to the need for the adoption of AI-powered storage systems. The demand for AI-powered storage systems is driven by regulatory mandates for the use of electronic health records, increasing focus on precision medicine, and a strong presence of service providers engaged in developing AI solutions for healthcare.

AI-powered storage market in North America is projected to hold the largest share and market in APAC is expected to grow at the highest CAGR during the forecast period

This market in North America is further divided into the US, Canada, and Mexico. There is a growing trend of cloud computing, which has increased the economic impact of data center investments made by leading service providers such as Amazon (US), Google (US), and Microsoft (US). Enterprises in North America are increasing their spending on storage infrastructure for AI workloads to gain competitive advantage and increase their business productivity. The presence of other prominent AI technology providers including IBM, NVIDIA, and Intel, is boosting the growth of the AI-powered storage market in this region.

This market in APAC is further divided into China, Japan, India, South Korea and the Rest of APAC. The Rest of APAC primarily includes Australia, New Zealand, Vietnam, and Indonesia. Countries in this region are heavily reliant on manufacturing and can implement automated supply chain optimization, which will generate faster outputs. All these activities will help to generate greater economic output for the countries. Automated transportation can play an important role to boost this market as the elevated levels of congestion can be alleviated through fleet-wide traffic flow control.

Key Topics Covered

1 Introduction

2 Research Methodology

3 Executive Summary

4 Premium Insights 4.1 Attractive Opportunities in AI-Powered Storage Market4.2 AI-Powered Storage Market, By Offering4.3 Market, By End User4.4 Market, By Storage System4.5 Market, By Region

5 Market Overview 5.1 Introduction5.2 Market Dynamics5.2.1 Drivers5.2.1.1 Massive Growth in Data Volumes5.2.1.2 Need for Global Enterprise Infrastructure to Refresh Their Storage Architecture5.2.1.3 Increasing Adoption of Cloud-Based Services5.2.1.4 Growing Demand for AI in HPC Data Centers5.2.2 Restraints5.2.2.1 Limited Expertise in AI Hardware5.2.2.2 Lack of Data Security in Cloud- and Server-Based Services5.2.3 Opportunities5.2.3.1 Growing Number of Cross-Industry Partnerships and Collaborations5.2.3.2 Availability and Rapid Development of Useful Data Analysis Tools5.2.4 Challenges5.2.4.1 Unreliability of AI Algorithms5.2.4.2 Concerns Regarding Data Privacy

6 AI-Powered Storage Market, By Offering 6.1 Introduction6.2 Hardware6.2.1 Storage Medium6.2.1.1 SSD6.2.1.2 HDD6.2.2 Other Hardware6.2.2.1 CPU6.2.2.2 GPU6.3 Software

7 AI-Powered Storage Market, By Storage System 7.1 Introduction7.2 Direct-Attached Storage Systems7.2.1 Existing Storage Architecture Can Be Easily Accessed Using DAS Systems7.3 Network-Attached Storage Systems7.3.1 Multiple Client Access Feature Increases Demand for Nas Storage Systems7.4 Storage Area Network7.4.1 San Storage Systems Provide Multinent Environment Through Storage Virtualization

8 AI-Powered Storage Market, By Storage Architecture 8.1 Introduction8.2 File- and Object-Based Storage8.2.1 File Storage8.2.1.1 File Storage Architecture Provides Benefits Including Uniformity While Storing Data and While Retrieving It8.2.2 Object Storage8.2.2.1 Object-Based Storage Can Be Retrieved Exactly in Same Way Irrespective of Their Location8.3 Block Storage8.3.1 Block Storage Architecture is Used to Store Files for Special Applications Such as Virtual Machine File Systems

9 AI-Powered Storage Market, By Storage Medium 9.1 Introduction9.2 Hard Disk Drive9.2.1 Lower Cost of HDD is Major Reason for Its High Adoption9.3 Solid State Drive9.3.1 All-Flash Arrays9.3.1.1 Low Maintenance and Faster Response are Key Features of All-Flash Arrays9.3.2 Hybrid Flash Arrays9.3.2.1 Balanced Cost and Good Performance are Main Reasons for High Adoption of Hybrid Flash Arrays

10 AI-Powered Storage Market, By End User 10.1 Introduction10.2 Enterprises10.2.1 BFSI10.2.1.1 BFSI Sector is Adopting AI Technology to Cut Short Tedious Tasks Including Loan Application Approvals10.2.2 Healthcare10.2.2.1 Healthcare Sector is Adopting This Technology to Automate Tasks and Analyse Patient Data Sets for Faster Delivery10.2.3 Media and Entertainment10.2.3.1 This Sector is Adopting AI-Powered Storage Systems for Storing, Managing, and Distributing Huge Data Collections10.2.4 Retail10.2.4.1 Retail Companies are Bridging Gap Between Virtual and Physical Sale Channels Through AI Technology10.2.5 Consumer Goods10.2.5.1 Consumer Goods Sector Adopts AI Technology Owing to Development in Smart Retailing10.2.6 Manufacturing10.2.6.1 This Sector Uses AI Technology to Optimize Manufacturing Supply Chains and Anticipate Market Changes10.2.7 Other Enterprises10.2.7.1 Aerospace and Defense10.2.7.2 Business and Consulting10.2.7.3 Education and Research10.2.7.4 Energy10.3 Government Bodies10.3.1 Government Bodies Use This Technology for Public Policy Objectives Including Health and Welfare and Emergency Services10.4 Cloud Service Providers10.4.1 Cloud Service Providers Use AI-Powered Storage for Data Management and Analysis10.5 Telecom Companies10.5.1 Telecom Companies Use AI Technology to Enhance Customer Experience and Improve Network Reliability

11 AI-Powered Storage Market, By Region 11.1 Introduction11.2 North America11.3 Europe11.4 APAC11.5 RoW

12 Competitive Landscape 12.1 Overview12.2 Market Ranking Analysis12.3 Competitive Leadership Mapping, 201812.3.1 Visionary Leaders12.3.2 Dynamic Differentiators12.3.3 Innovators12.3.4 Emerging Companies12.4 Competitive Scenario12.4.1 Product Launches and Developments12.4.2 Partnerships, Contracts, Acquisitions, and Agreements

13 Company Profiles 13.1 Key Players13.1.1 Dell Technologies13.1.2 Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Company13.1.3 IBM13.1.4 NVIDIA Corporation13.1.5 Pure Storage13.1.6 Intel Corporation13.1.7 Netapp13.1.8 Samsung Electronics13.1.9 Micron Technology13.1.10 Cisco13.1.11 Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)13.1.12 Toshiba13.1.13 Hitachi13.1.14 Lenovo13.2 Right-To-Win13.3 Other Key Players13.3.1 Datadirect Network13.3.2 Seagate Technology PLC13.3.3 Flextronics International13.3.4 Western Digital13.3.5 Fujitsu13.3.6 Tintri

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The Home Office team use the cloud as their primary hosting platform and the department is one of the biggest cloud users in the UK government. The Immigration Technology department has over 500 developers working on immigration projects.

Home Office senior leaders wanted Immigration Technology to reduce spending on the cloud, so its platform team investigated ways to reduce costs over the last year.

Immigration Technology reduced its overall cloud costs by 40%, by using a variety of optimisation techniques across storage, use and resources. By continuing these techniques, the team is confident it can increase cloud cost savings by at least another 20% as they continue to experiment.

The team looked at how developers were working and found they were not using cloud resources as efficiently as they could because of their focus on delivery. By focusing on mission-critical deadlines, developers were using more expensive on-demand services and not planning resource usage. This led to expensive cloud bills, sometimes called bill shock, because most cloud providers charge for cloud resources by the second.

Immigration Technology researched industry practices to help reduce cloud costs and discovered 7 strategies aimed at increasing efficiency.

From their research Immigration Technology found using excess capacity in the cloud was the best way to reduce its overall cloud computing bill. Sometimes this is referred to as using Spot Instances, Low-Priority VMs, Transient Servers, or Preemptible VMs.

Some cloud providers offer spare compute resources that are not being used at discounted rates. However, using excess capacity in the cloud can be very volatile because the cloud provider can ask for the resources back at any time if another customer wants them, sometimes with only a few minutes warning. Immigration Technology used a provider that offered a bidding system to get the lowest price.

To mitigate the risk of losing vital computer capacity, Immigration Technology does not use the excess capacity option to power important production services that must always be available. But it is perfect for non-production services or temporary jobs, which currently make up about 30% of the compute powering their non-production containerised clusters.

Potential cost saving: the department paid approximately 80% less for cloud resources by using excess capacity services.

Most cloud providers charge customers by the second for cloud services so Immigration Technology experimented with scheduling compute and storage resources to run them only when needed. This approach provided big savings.

The team started by identifying which services they could turn on and off easily. For example, most development and testing systems were not used overnight or at the weekend, so these were automatically turned off for 12 hours every evening and 24 hours over the weekend.

Potential cost saving: Immigration Technology reduced the costs by over 60% by turning off services overnight and over the weekend without affecting user functionality.

Immigration Technology encouraged teams to use autoscaling, but not all developers were using this method. Most cloud providers offer an autoscaling product. Immigration Technology decided to incorporate one as a standard component into their build templates, which means the department automatically has autoscaling as part of every standard build.

For example, for the Access UK online visa application service, the team went from running 20 containers in production down to 2 containers. These scaled up only when there was an increase in demand.

Potential cost savings: By autoscaling all standard services, Immigration Technology only pays for the compute they need at the time.

After analysing its cloud estate, Immigration Technology discovered that environments did not always have the appropriate compute and storage resources.

For example, the team monitored some of their compute instances over a 2-week period and found they were using only 10% to 20% of the resources they were paying for on average. Immigration Technology wanted to get its compute usage between 60% to 80% to get better value for money.

This was because development, pre-production and production environments were often set up in the same way to simplify development. However, this meant that relatively unused development servers could be running on a full production service.

To maximise usage, Immigration Technology set standard build templates to scale services appropriately for their environments, a strategy called rightsizing.

Immigration Technology created a small build template for development purposes, which does not include high availability options and keeps costs down. Immigration Technology uses a more expensive large build for production services, which need high availability options.

When looking at databases, Immigration Technology found many developers were using expensive default options they did not need, for example, enhanced monitoring services. These options were not required for a development database and could increase the service cost considerably, so the platform teams agreed to use smaller database services in development.

Potential cost savings: By rightsizing services, Immigration Technology kept costs low in non-production and other low usage environments.

In some cases, the platforms team found the best way to reduce costs was to re-architect the service to make it cloud native. For example, Immigration Technology found that folding multiple databases into one managed database instance helped to reduce costs considerably. They also moved applications into containers to reduce the resource footprint of the services.

Immigration Technology also made another big change to reduce its compute footprint. The team switched some services that did relatively simple tasks to use serverless technology instead. They also replaced commercial middleware tools with simpler functions, such as using storage lifecycle policies instead of a more expensive document management tool.

Potential cost savings: Immigration Technology used cheaper cloud native options by re-architecting services that could not be made more efficient.

Development teams were using a large number of cloud resources during testing or building, but did not always stop or delete them once testing was complete. Immigration Technology saved 1% in costs by cutting unused resources and encouraging development teams to keep their environments tidy.

Immigration Technology development teams regularly perform housekeeping tasks like:

Potential cost savings: Doing regular housekeeping tasks and creating policies to archive older assets saved around 1% on cloud costs.

Most cloud providers will offer a discount in return for committing to specified level of usage. Sometimes these discounts are referred to as reserved or committed use instances. Immigration Technology found they could get an upfront discount of up to 40% on compute resources, if they bought in bulk upfront.

However, up-front usage commitments are often restricted to a specific server type and the server must be switched on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This strategy cannot be used alongside other cloud cost saving techniques like scheduling where servers are switched off for a period of time.

Immigration Technology also found the savings from the up-front usage commitments were often lower than from many of the other techniques. For example, turning off servers overnight and at weekends can save over 60% on cloud costs. Immigration Technology realised it could save more money by only using this method for services where no other techniques would work.

Potential cost savings: Immigration Technology only considered up-front usage commitments if no other technique would have worked.

Having tested and compared the effectiveness of all of these techniques, Immigration Technology then needed to encourage developers to use them regularly. Some techniques need development effort, for example, rightsizing components requires monitoring to calculate what size the underlying compute should be. Developers often prioritise delivery rather than cost efficiency, so Immigration Technology worked directly with developers to give them time to think about their working practices.

To do this, Immigration Technology uses a cost efficiency scale for each service and team. Known as the Hosting Cost Efficiency Rating, the scale gives different weighting to the following techniques:

The scale shows developers and teams how they can improve their service. Immigration Technology is planning to gamify the process to encourage teams to become even more efficient.

Immigration Technology is also working to get its service teams to incorporate the cost saving practices by:

GDS will be producing guidance on cost optimisation in the new year that will further explain some of the techniques that Immigration Technology used to reduce their costs in the cloud.

For more information on using cloud cost optimisation techniques to save money, contact cloud-strategy@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk.

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When OnePlus released OxygenOS 10.0.4 update for OnePlus 7T/7T Pro in late-October, there was something to get excited about. Despite being a minor 99MB-sized update, it offered something unique only for the Indian users Cloud Storage services for the Gallery app. The company had announced the rollout of Cloud Service for its phones at the launch event of OnePlus 7T series at London on October 10.

The Cloud Service for the Gallery app helps users to back up photos and videos on the cloud storage, thereby freeing up internal storage space. With the OxygenOS 10.0.4 update, OnePlus provided 5GB of free cloud storage to Indian users and an additional 50GB of free storage for the first year, after which, it will become chargeable.

When it comes to the OnePlus 7/7Pro, the company is going slower because there are reasons to do so. Soon after the release of Android 10 in September, OnePlus released two back-to-back open beta updates of OxygenOS 10.0 for the OnePlus 7 series but halted the rollout of the stable version of OxygenOS 10.0 for some time as the limited release of the version was littered with bugs.

It was in mid-October, after the launch of OnePlus 7T series with Android 10 out of the box, the company released the OxygenOS 10.0.1 hotfix update for OnePlus 7 series. Nearly after more than one month, the company released the OxygenOS 10.0.2 update for OnePlus 7 series in November. Finally, on December 12, OnePlus started rolling out the OxygenOS 10.0.3 update for OnePlus 7/7 Pro that included Android November Security Patch among other things.

Since OnePlus release OxygenOS updates in a staged manner, it is quite obvious that it would take a certain time for OxygenOS 10.0.3 update to reach all the OnePlus 7 series users in India. It is a pity that OnePlus is running behind schedule in pushing OxygenOS updates to 7 series devices since they are getting the November Security Patch in the middle of December.

The company seems to maintain a gap of around four weeks between the OxygenOS updates for OnePlus 7 series. If the actual rollout timeline is maintained like that, we believe OnePlus 7 series users will be able to get the OxygenOS 10.0.4 update with Cloud Storage services by the second week of January 2020.

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Over the past 25 years, Amazon has transformed itself. What began as an online bookseller has become one of the world's largest retailers. Beyond that, Amazon is the market leader in cloud storage services (AWS), is a major producer of both television and film (Amazon Studios), and has nowentered the health care market.

Of course, not all of Amazon's ideas pan out. (Anyone out there still have a Fire Phone?) But even when they don't, the lessons learned prove invaluable--and sometimes lead toeven more extraordinary ideas.

So, how do Jeff Bezos and co. do it? How do they decide on which ideas to focus their considerable resources, and which they want to leave behind?

The approach is known as "working backwards."

Let's break down how this process works and see how it can help you and your business.

Working backwards

According to McAllister, working backwards begins by "[trying] to work backwards from the customer, rather than starting with an idea for a product and trying to bolt customers onto it."

For new initiative, the process begins with a formidable task: A product manager must write an internal press release announcing a finished product.

"Internal press releases are centered around the customer problem, how current solutions (internal or external) fail, and how the new product will blow away existing solutions," writes McAllister. "If the benefits listed don't sound very interesting or exciting to customers, then perhaps they're not (and shouldn't be built)."

In that case, the manager must continue revising the press release until they've come up with something better. A lot of work for an idea that may never come to fruition? Yes. But as McAllister explains, "Iterating on a press release is a lot less expensive than iterating on the product itself (and quicker!)."

McAllister goes on to share a sample outline for an internal press release:

Heading:Name the product in a way the reader (i.e., your target customers) will understand.

Subheading:Describe who the market for the product is and what benefit they get. One sentence only underneath the title.

Summary: Give a summary of the product and the benefit. Assume the reader will not read anything else so make this paragraph good.

Problem: Describe the problem your product solves.

Solution: Describe how your product elegantly solves the problem.

Quote from You: A quote from a spokesperson in your company.

How to Get Started: Describe how easy it is to get started.

Customer Quote: Provide a quote from a hypothetical customer that describes how they experienced the benefit.

Closing and Call to Action: Wrap it up and give pointers where the reader should go next.

In addition to the above template, McAllister advises that you should keep the press release simple, a page and a half or less, with paragraphs made up of no more than three to four sentences.

Part of keeping it simple means writing for mainstream customers, a technique McAllister calls "Oprah-speak." "Imagine you're sitting on Oprah's couch and have just explained the product to her, and then you listen as she explains it to her audience," he writes. "That's 'Oprah-speak,' not 'geek-speak.'"

If the product actually makes it into development, the press release can then be used as a touchstone.

When building major products, it's easy to get carried away with trying to add new features or address minor details, a problem known in project management as "scope creep." To help battle that, McAllister advises product teams ask themselves: "Are we building what's in the press release?" If not, they need to ask themselves why.

How working backwards can help you

Sometimes, we're emotionally attached to ideas that just aren't that good. But the more time and effort we invest into these ideas, the more difficult it is to let go of them. This can result in a lot of wasted time, energy, and other resources spent to build a product that was never going to be worth itin the end.

By working backwards, you get the chance to work on your idea and flesh it out. But you're also forced to put it to the test. After writing and rewriting, refining and reiterating, it will become clear if the idea is really worth pursuing. That clarity often helps you to let go of mediocre ideas so you can concentrate on great ones.

And when you do decide to move forward, your press release will help you to stay focused, tocontinue to see things through the eyes of your customer--and to communicate in a way they'll easily understand.

So, the next time you think you've got a great idea, start by workingbackwards--and transform your work from good to great.

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