Going forward, we expect NetApp to continue gaining storage market share as increased adoption of cloud leads to higher demand for virtualizedstorage infrastructure.
These advantages have attracted increasing attention from a wide array of organizations and, accordingly, storage virtualization (part of virtualized infrastructure) has witnessed tremendous growth.
Fusion-io is known for its high performance PCIe storage products and IO Turbine is offering technology for using flash storage for caching data in a virtualized enterprise environment.
We believe, these factors coupled with the fact that NetApp is one of the pioneers in virtualization will help it gain storage market share as more organizations turn to virtualized infrastructure as the preferred way of delivering and running applications going forward.
Dell is focused on the development and acquisition of storage intellectual property that delivers productivity and efficiency gains for highly-virtualized data centers.
Once the IT infrastructure is virtualized, firms have the foundation of a shared IT infrastructure of pooled computer, network, and storage resources to delivery capacity on demand and meet fluctuations in resource requirements.