Hybrid Performance Arrays Led With 38% Of 2018 Revenue Shipped
Leadership, however, is expected to flip to all flash in 2019.
At the rate flash storage array shipments have been rising, 2018 could be the last year hybrid shipments are greater than the all flash array category, according to IHS Markit. Revenue for flash performance arrays comprised 29% of the overall array revenue share in 2018, while hybrid performance arrays made up 38%. The IHS Markit forecast for 2019 flips the share of those categories, with all flash performance arrays growing 23% to reach 33% of array revenue share, and with hybrid performance declining 15% to reach 30%.
“Storage vendor revenue has been helped by data-center technology refresh to flash for its performance, power, and reliability characteristics,” said Dennis Hahn, senior analyst, IHS Markit. “NetApp and other vendors have claimed that while the majority of array factory shipments have transitioned to flash, there still is a substantial footprint of older spinning disk systems that still need to be replaced.”