PUBLISHER: The Business Research Company | PRODUCT CODE: 2009809
PUBLISHER: The Business Research Company | PRODUCT CODE: 2009809
Storage resource management is the practice of supervising and optimizing storage infrastructure to maintain efficient, secure, and compliant data availability. It includes monitoring capacity, performance, and utilization across storage environments to guide planning and operational control. This discipline helps lower expenses, avoid disruptions, and enhance system reliability through automation and policy driven governance.
The main types of components in storage resource management offerings include software, hardware, and services. Software represents digital platforms that monitor, evaluate, and optimize storage assets to enhance capacity utilization, operational efficiency, and data accessibility across enterprise environments. Deployment modes include on premises and cloud and are adopted by small and medium enterprises and large enterprises. Applications include data backup and recovery, storage provisioning, performance monitoring, compliance management, and others and are used by banking financial services and insurance, healthcare, information technology and telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, government, and other end users.
Tariffs on imported storage hardware components and software solutions are impacting the storage resource management market by increasing procurement and production costs, particularly affecting segments like storage area network devices, network-attached storage, and enterprise storage management software. Regions such as North America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific that rely on imported storage solutions are most affected. While tariffs increase costs for end-users and providers, they also encourage local manufacturing, boost domestic software development, and accelerate innovation in cost-effective and energy-efficient storage solutions.
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The storage resource management market size has grown strongly in recent years. It will grow from $18.32 billion in 2025 to $19.85 billion in 2026 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.4%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to growing data volumes and digital transformation, increasing complexity of storage infrastructure, rising demand for data security and compliance, adoption of storage management software, expansion of enterprise IT infrastructure.
The storage resource management market size is expected to see strong growth in the next few years. It will grow to $27.61 billion in 2030 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 8.6%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to increasing deployment of hybrid cloud storage solutions, growing adoption of AI-driven storage optimization, rising demand for automated backup and recovery systems, expansion of storage analytics and reporting services, increasing integration with enterprise data management platforms. Major trends in the forecast period include increasing adoption of cloud storage management services, rising demand for storage virtualization solutions, growing integration of data lifecycle management tools, expansion of automated storage provisioning services, rising focus on storage compliance and policy management.
The surge in data volumes is expected to propel the growth of the storage resource management market going forward. Data volumes represent the rapidly expanding amount of digital information generated, processed, and stored by organizations across industries. This expansion is supported by the widespread adoption of cloud computing, increasing deployment of data intensive applications, and the growth of connected devices, all contributing to greater storage requirements. Storage resource management solutions provide centralized visibility, capacity planning, performance tracking, and infrastructure optimization, enabling efficient utilization, cost control, and dependable data availability. In March 2024, Edge Delta reported that global data generation reached approximately 120 zettabytes in 2023. Therefore, the surge in data volumes is driving the growth of the storage resource management market.
The rising adoption of cloud computing is expected to propel growth of the storage resource management market. Cloud computing refers to delivery of computing services including servers, storage, databases, networking, and software over the internet on a pay as you go basis. Adoption is increasing due to digital transformation initiatives as organizations migrate to cloud platforms to enhance scalability, reduce infrastructure costs, and support remote work models. Cloud computing enables efficient storage resource management by providing scalable and on demand access to centralized storage systems that optimize data allocation, reduce hardware expenditure, improve availability, and allow dynamic adjustment of storage capacity based on real time needs. For instance, in April 2025, according to the American Bar Association, a United States based professional organization, approximately 75 percent of attorneys use cloud computing for work related tasks, up from 69 percent in 2023 and around 70 percent in 2022, supporting expansion of the storage resource management market.
In March 2025, Precisely Inc., a US based data integrity company, acquired DTS Software for an undisclosed amount. Through this acquisition, Precisely Inc. aims to expand its mainframe optimization portfolio by integrating DTS Software storage management technologies with its existing IBM mainframe solutions, improving operational efficiency for enterprises, and delivering comprehensive solutions that ensure data integrity across cloud, on premises, and hybrid environments. DTS Software is a US based technology company that specializes in mainframe storage optimization and management solutions for industries such as insurance, banking, financial services, and retail.
Major companies operating in the storage resource management market are Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., Dell Technologies Inc., Hitachi Vantara Corporation, IBM Corporation, Cisco Systems Inc., Oracle Corporation, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, Western Digital Corporation, Inspur Group Co. Ltd., Seagate Technology Holdings plc, NetApp Inc., Pure Storage Inc., Nutanix Inc., Commvault Systems Inc., Rubrik Inc., Quantum Corporation, DataDirect Networks Inc., Druva Inc., VAST Data Inc., Qumulo Inc., DataCore Software Corporation, Zadara Storage Inc., Scality Inc., Datadobi NV, and StorONE Inc.
North America was the largest region in the storage resource management market in 2025. Europe is expected to be the fastest-growing region in the forecast period. The regions covered in the storage resource management market report are Asia-Pacific, South East Asia, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa.
The countries covered in the storage resource management market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Taiwan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain.
The storage resource management market consists of revenues earned by entities by providing services such as performance optimization services, storage provisioning and automation services, storage virtualization management, data lifecycle management services, storage compliance and policy management services, cloud storage management services, and hybrid storage integration services. The market value includes the value of related goods sold by the service provider or included within the service offering. The storage resource management market also includes sales of storage controllers, management servers, data storage systems, backup and recovery systems, network attached storage devices, storage area network components, and on premise storage management appliances. 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 and 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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