PUBLISHER: The Business Research Company | PRODUCT CODE: 1987697
PUBLISHER: The Business Research Company | PRODUCT CODE: 1987697
Disaggregated storage is a software-defined storage architecture that separates storage resources from compute and networking, allowing them to be managed and scaled independently. It pools storage devices across servers and exposes them over high-speed networks as shared resources. Its primary purpose is to enable scalable, high-performance storage that can be dynamically allocated to applications as needed.
The primary components of disaggregated storage include hardware, software, and services. Hardware refers to the physical storage devices and infrastructure that are used to store, manage, and access data independently from compute resources. These solutions are deployed through multiple deployment models, including on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments. They support different storage types such as block storage, file storage, and object storage, and cater to organizations of varying sizes, including small and medium enterprises and large enterprises. They are applied across several industry verticals including information technology and telecommunications, banking, financial services, and insurance, healthcare, media and entertainment, retail, manufacturing, and other industry verticals.
Tariffs have impacted the disaggregated storage market by increasing the costs of importing high-performance storage nodes, networking components, and storage drives, affecting both hardware and software segments. Regions such as Asia-Pacific, particularly China and Taiwan, which are major manufacturing hubs, are most affected by these tariffs. The increased costs can slow adoption by SMEs and large enterprises, but tariffs also incentivize local production, encourage regional supply chain diversification, and promote development of domestically manufactured storage solutions.
The disaggregated storage market size has grown exponentially in recent years. It will grow from $3.87 billion in 2025 to $4.67 billion in 2026 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.5%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to increasing demand for scalable storage, rising enterprise data volumes, early adoption of software-defined storage, high costs of monolithic storage systems, growth in cloud computing deployments.
The disaggregated storage market size is expected to see exponential growth in the next few years. It will grow to $9.92 billion in 2030 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.7%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to adoption of disaggregated storage in large enterprises, integration with ai-driven data analytics, expansion of hybrid and multi-cloud environments, rising need for storage performance optimization, increasing deployment of managed storage services. Major trends in the forecast period include software defined storage adoption, high performance storage scaling, data migration & replication services expansion, storage monitoring & management solutions, storage system design & integration consulting.
The expansion of digital transformation initiatives is expected to propel the growth of the disaggregated storage market going forward. Digital transformation initiatives involve the implementation of digital technologies by organizations to improve operations, increase efficiency, and deliver innovative services. The rise in digital transformation initiatives is largely driven by the need for organizations to modernize IT systems and enable cloud-based environments. Disaggregated storage supports these initiatives by offering scalable, flexible, and high-performance storage solutions that enable efficient data management and faster digital innovation. For instance, in April 2025, according to Eurostat, a Luxembourg-based government organization, 13% of businesses in the European Union adopted artificial intelligence technologies in 2024, up from 8% in 2023, indicating a clear year-over-year rise in adoption of a critical digital technology supporting broader transformation efforts across enterprises. Therefore, the rise in digital transformation initiatives is driving the growth of the disaggregated storage market.
Key companies operating in the disaggregated storage market are concentrating on integrated container orchestration frameworks and adaptable storage solutions for cloud-native applications to improve scalability and operational flexibility. Flexible storage involves dynamically allocated, policy-controlled resources that scale separately from compute, supporting both temporary and persistent data with functions such as snapshots and topology-aware placement, enabling shared multi-tenant storage pools with quality of service, encryption, and automation for stateful workloads in hybrid cloud environments while addressing data gravity challenges. For example, in October 2025, NetApp, a US-based storage technology company, introduced AFX 1K, its first disaggregated storage platform. Key features include independent scaling of storage controllers and capacity through a high-speed network into a unified resource pool, integration with ONTAP software for advanced data management and resiliency, and NVIDIA GPU-enabled controllers designed to accelerate AI workloads directly within the storage system.
In May 2025, DataCore Software, a US-based provider of software-defined storage and storage virtualization technologies, acquired StarWind Software for an undisclosed amount. With this acquisition, DataCore broadened its SDS offerings into disaggregated architecture environments, enabling stronger networked and virtualized storage capabilities across core, edge, and cloud settings. StarWind Software is a US-based company delivering disaggregated storage solutions that pool local server disks to create highly available shared storage.
Major companies operating in the disaggregated storage market are Dell Technologies Inc., Lenovo Group Limited, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), Cisco Systems Inc., Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, NEC Corporation, Inspur Group Co. Ltd., Super Micro Computer Inc., Seagate Technology Holdings plc, Western Digital Corporation, NetApp Inc., Pure Storage Inc., Hitachi Vantara LLC, DataDirect Networks Inc., Quanta Cloud Technology Inc., VAST Data Inc., Cloudian Inc., Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Lightbits Labs Ltd., Liqid Inc.
North America was the largest region in the Disaggregated storage market in 2025. Asia-Pacificis expected to be the fastest-growing region in the forecast period. The regions covered in the disaggregated storage market report are Asia-Pacific, South East Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa.
The countries covered in the disaggregated storage market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain.
The disaggregated storage market consists of revenues earned by entities by providing services such as storage system design and architecture consulting, deployment and integration of disaggregated storage solutions, data migration and replication services, performance optimization and tuning, and monitoring and management. The market value includes the value of related goods sold by the service provider or included within the service offering. The disaggregated storage market also includes sales of high-performance storage nodes, software-defined storage platforms, storage controllers, solid-state drives, hard disk drives, and networking components for storage. Values in this market are 'factory gate' values, that is the value of goods sold by the manufacturers or creators of the goods, whether to other entities (including downstream manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and retailers) or directly to end customers. The value of goods in this market includes related services sold by the creators of the goods.
The market value is defined as the revenues that enterprises gain from the sale of goods and/or services within the specified market and geography through sales, grants, or donations in terms of the currency (in USD unless otherwise specified).
The revenues for a specified geography are consumption values that are revenues generated by organizations in the specified geography within the market, irrespective of where they are produced. It does not include revenues from resales along the supply chain, either further along the supply chain or as part of other products.
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