Recently, CCID Consulting released the "China Distributed Storage Market Research Report (2023)".
As the foundation of the digital economy, the importance of data storage has become increasingly prominent.
In recent years, with the advantages of high performance, high reliability, and high scalability, distributed storage based on distributed architecture has ushered in vigorous development. In 2022, the scale of China's distributed storage market will reach 10.42 billion yuan. There is still a certain gap in storage, but the growth rate of the market size from 2020 to 2022 will be nearly 20 percentage points higher than that of centralized storage.
In 2022, in the competitive landscape of China's distributed storage manufacturers, Sugon will be in the leader's quadrant, and occupy the top spot in the two market segments of education, scientific research and meteorology.
According to the report, behind Sugon Storage's leading advantage is its distributed storage product ParaStor based on self-developed technology, and its years of accumulation in unified integration, massive data storage, high reliability, and high performance.
New insights into the distributed storage market
In 2022, China's overall distributed storage market will be developing at a high speed, with a rapidly increasing scale and proportion, and showing some new features:
In the past three years, the annual growth rate of China's distributed storage market has exceeded 30%. It is estimated that in 2025, the distributed storage market size is expected to grow from 10.42 billion yuan in 2022 to 21.14 billion yuan.
From 2020 to 2022, the share of China's distributed storage in the overall storage market will rise rapidly from 24% to 38.7%.
From the perspective of regional markets, North China and East China account for half of China's distributed storage market, Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and the Yangtze River Delta have become the most important regional markets, and the central and western regions have great potential for development.
From the perspective of application scenarios, scientific research innovation, cloud native, media integration, AIGC, etc. have become the most typical application scenarios of distributed storage. In the future, the demand for distributed storage in fields such as finance, insurance, and government affairs will grow rapidly.
From the perspective of product structure, distributed block, file and object storage are developing rapidly, among which distributed file storage accounts for the highest proportion. In terms of storage media, as the cost of all-flash memory further decreases, the scope of application of distributed all-flash memory will be further expanded in the future.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the digital economy's demand for massive data storage, the popularization of distributed architecture, and the accelerated implementation of new technologies such as big data, AI, and the Internet of Things will all promote the rapid growth of China's distributed storage market.
Sugon leads the new pattern of distributed storage
Under the new market trend, the industry has put forward higher requirements for distributed storage. Sugon Storage is the first in the industry to put forward five concepts: massive, green, efficient, integrated, and safe, leading a new pattern of distributed storage development.
In terms of mass storage, the deployment scale of a single set of Sugon Storage has exceeded 300PB, leading the mass storage market in China.
In terms of green, as the industry's first liquid-cooled storage, the Sugon ParaStor liquid-cooled storage system is paired with Sugon liquid-cooled computing nodes, which can reduce the PUE value of the data center to 1.1.
In terms of efficiency, relying on the independent research and development and performance optimization capabilities of the storage system's full-stack core technology, the performance of Sugon ParaStor has reached the world's leading level. Sugon all-flash node storage products meet the core business needs of enterprises with extreme performance.
In terms of integration, Sugon ParaStor is delivered in the form of software and hardware integration, which integrates multiple protocols of files, objects, blocks, and HDFS, breaks the data islands between different types of storage, and realizes the fusion and unification of massive heterogeneous data storage.
In terms of security, based on the self-developed distributed storage software architecture, Sugon ParaStor can fundamentally guarantee the availability and reliability of storage.
The advantages of Sugon Storage have also been verified in the market. In 2022, in the education and scientific research market, Sugon ParaStor will occupy the first place with a market share of 26.1%. In addition, Sugon Storage is widely recognized by users in the application of high-end meteorological numerical platform, occupying the first place in China's meteorological market.
Sugon ParaStor has built a big data platform for scientific research institutions such as the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Big Data Platform of the National Precision Medicine Program, and Bosheng Biology, providing strong support for massive scientific research data with high aggregation bandwidth and high I/O. Over the years, Sugon ParaStor has built a storage resource pool of nearly 300PB for the National Meteorological Administration, supporting hundreds of thousands of operations and facilitating meteorological research and applications.