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Storage players are looking forward to a fruitful 2009 as the channel agrees that the market will remain resilient despite the recession.
Earlier this year, IDC reported that global storage software revenue grew 14.2 per cent in the second quarter of 2008. External disk storage system revenues for the quarter rose 16.7 per cent to $5.1bn (£3.4bn).
James Ward, managing director of storage distributor Hammer, said: “There is no reason that 2009 will not to be a bright year for storage.
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“The market adoptions of Fibre Channel over Ethernet, de-duplication, solid-state disk, InfiniBand and virtualisation, among others, have and will continue to dominate.”
Jon Collins, service director at analyst Freeform Dynamics, said: “Businesses will not suddenly stop storing data, so the bottom will not drop out of the market in 2009 it will only grow.”
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