Data Center Network Equipment is the key to an efficient Datacenter and Storage

Data Center Network Equipment is the key to an efficient datacenter and storage services. Further, it enables enterprises to address data center related vulnerabilities, regulatory requirements and ensure availability of data.

The increase in web hosting services and other web services has significantly driven the sales of Data Center Network Equipment. Further, there are many industry specific needs such as digital imaging, Picture Archive Systems (PACS) in multimedia companies, which drive the sales for efficient Data Center Network Equipment.

Secondly, the adoption of data center automation solutions is becoming increasingly critical for IT departments, driven by the need for high availability, need to reduce management costs, need to improve regulatory compliance, increasing technology consumption, adoption of virtualization etc.

In addition, exponential growth in number of servers, storage devices and network equipment has significantly increased the infrastructure complexity. Further, while the price of servers has declined by over 50 percent in the last decade, the cost of managing a server over its lifetime has increased significantly. Currently, most organizations either manually administer their servers or use stand-alone solutions, which are incapable of managing its entire data center portfolio. However, with the rapid increase in cost and complexity of managing data centers, the adoption of data center automation solutions is expected to increase significantly over the period 2008-2010. Open source and policy-based form factors of data center automation solutions are expected to gain momentum in the market. In addition, server automation and configuration & change management are expected to account for a significant share of the DCA market.