Dell'Oro Group Forecasts Bright Future ahead for Data Center Appliance Market

A recent report by Dell'Oro Group indicated that the Data Center Appliance market is estimated to touch nearly $4 billion by the year 2017.

Dell'Oro Group has been providing in-depth, objective research and analysis so that vendors, component manufacturers, investment firms and other stakeholders are able to take fact-based, informed strategic decisions. Research reports by Dell'Oro Group are respected and are considered to be a trusted resource in the networking and telecommunications industry.

The Dell'Oro Group Data Center Appliance Forecast Report also offers a complete, in-depth coverage of the markets. It provides details data on manufacturers' revenue, units shipped and average selling prices. Information on Application Delivery Controller and the WAN Optimization Appliance equipment are eagerly awaited by the insiders. The report then further segments each of the markets with significant amount of data on Physical and Virtual technologies.

According to the Dell’Oro Group report, the expected growth in total Data Center Appliance market will be largely due to the enhanced acceptance of virtual appliances in the production networks, which are in the process of adapting to cloud environments.

Casey Quillin, senior analyst of Data Center Appliance Market Research at Dell'Oro Group indicated that the virtual appliance market is fast changing and they foresee high priced and higher end products that make networks smarter and become more dominant, and that the cloud applications were a perfect example. He also added; “F5, Riverbed, Citrix, and A10 have all recently announced virtual appliance solutions for the public cloud which are compatible with Amazon Web Services."

Network intelligence applications will soon be playing bigger roles and will change the market dynamics. The prices will expectedly further appreciate and the rise will further supplement unit growth in the segment. The report also highlights that virtual appliances that come within the Data Center Appliance market and which form less than about 10 percent of the total market will slowly gain, and the growth trajectory projects it to reach about 30 percent of total market revenue by the year 2017.