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Prepared for Matt W. | Delivered September 16, 2019
Cloud Storage Providers
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Goals
To look for the biggest cloud storage providers by volume of storage preserved on their systems and the providers that are growing the fastest in order to conduct market research.
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Early Findings
The largest cloud storage providers in terms of the number of users include
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(
300 million users
), Google (
200 million users
), Microsoft OneDrive (
250 million users
), Dropbox (
300 million users
), and Box (
25 million users
).
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report
, the following providers were rated according to their capabilities in terms of capacity:
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Swarm (4.0),
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HyperStore (4.3), DDN WOS (3.5), Dell EMC ECS (4.3), Hitachi
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HCP (4.1),
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FusionStorage (4.0), IBM COS (4.5), NetApp StorageGRID (4.2), Red Hat
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(4.0),
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RING (4.3), SUSE Enterprise Storage (4.0), SwiftStack Storage (4.1), Western Digital ActiveScale (4.3).
IBM Cloud Object Storage was rated as having one of the largest cloud storage repositories in the world with the top two having over
800PB of storage
.
The cloud storage market (
$30.7 billion in 2017
) is expected to grow at a CAGR of
23.7%
during 2017-2022. The
major cloud storage providers
are AWS (US), IBM (US), Microsoft (US), Google (US), HPE (US),
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(US),
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(US), and Dell EMC (US).
"North America is expected to hold the largest cloud storage market share and APAC to grow at the fastest rate. North America is expected to hold the largest market share during the forecast period, as organizations are shifting toward cloud storage solutions and services, with an increasing adoption of digital business strategies. Furthermore, organizations have
invested heavily
in advanced technologies to gain a competitive advantage and improve business operations."
As of 2016, AWS accounted for
45%
of the revenue generated by public infrastructure as a service (IaaS) providers and was estimated to be bigger than the
next three players combined
, including Microsoft, Google, and IBM, according to Synergy Research.
Health is the next sector that cloud storage companies are looking to tap into. As of 2019, Amazon, Microsoft Corp., and Alphabet Inc. "are striking sweeping agreements to
store data and develop software
for hospitals, as the technology giants wrestle for control in health-care and cloud-computing markets."
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