A report by Markets and Markets estimated that by 2019 the datacentre automation market will be worth $7.53 billion.
The report said that demand for fast data access and storage continues to rise and that’s creating more and more datacentres. Datacentre automation is sometimes known as Software Defined Data Centres (SDDCs). Automation helps management deal with scalability, flexibility, manageability and reduced costs.
The market research company said it segments the datacentre automation market by hardware such as network automation, server automation and storage automation. It also values the secor by service including consulting services, installation and support.
The demand for data is forcing businesses to either build new datacentres or upgrade existing sites.
And the cost of datacentre infrastructure continues to increase at the same time as IT budgets continues to decrease.
Majr vendors in the industry include HP, Oracle, Dell, Brocade, Cisco, IBM, CA and BMC Software.
