Cloud Native Storage Market Report 2025

This report covers market characteristics, size and growth, segmentation, regional and country breakdowns, competitive landscape, market shares, trends and strategies for this market. It traces the market’s historic and forecast market growth by geography.

The cloud native storage market size has grown exponentially in recent years. It will grow from $24.05 billion in 2024 to $29.25 billion in 2025 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21.6%. The growth in the historic period can be attributed to increased data explosion, increased containerization trend, increased cost efficiency, increased enhanced flexibility and scalability, API-driven architectures.

The cloud native storage market size is expected to see exponential growth in the next few years. It will grow to $62.67 billion in 2029 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21%. The growth in the forecast period can be attributed to increasing edge computing growth, increasing multi-cloud adoption, increasing security and compliance requirements, increasing focus on performance optimization. Major trends in the forecast period include hybrid cloud solutions, adoption of cloud technologies, data management and orchestration tools, persistent storage for stateful applications, security-driven storage solutions.

The growing adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud strategies is expected to propel the growth of the cloud-native storage market going forward. Hybrid and multi-cloud strategies refer to the use of multiple cloud services, such as public and private clouds, from different providers to meet various business needs. The adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud strategies is due to increased due to efficient streamline processes, several factors that address the evolving needs of businesses, organizations, and individuals. Cloud-native storage is used in hybrid and multi-cloud strategies to provide organizations with the flexibility, scalability, and resilience needed to manage data across diverse cloud environments. For instance, in December 2023, according to reports published by Cloudzero, a US-based software-as-a-service company, most of the organizations will deploy a hybrid cloud in 2022 (39%), an increase of 3% from the previous year (36% in 2021). Therefore, the growing adoption of hybrid and multi-cloud strategies is driving the growth of the cloud-native storage market.

Major companies operating in the cloud-native storage market are concentrating on innovative advancements such as solarwinds observability, a new cloud-native SaaS observability platform. This platform refers to a set of tools designed to help organizations monitor and manage their IT infrastructure, applications, and services effectively. For instance, in October 2022, SolarWinds Worldwide LLC, a US-based network monitoring company, launched SolarWinds Observability, a cloud-native software-as-a-service platform. It provides unified and comprehensive visibility for modern, distributed, hybrid, and multi-cloud IT environments. It blends observability solutions across networks, infrastructure, systems, applications, databases, digital experiences, and log monitoring into one end-to-end solution across private and public clouds, and it helps to address the shift to the cloud, hybrid IT, and remote workforces, providing visibility into the complete environment in both public and private clouds. It is built for IT Ops and DevOps teams, developers, cloud architects, and IT executives.

In May 2022, Broadcom Inc., a US-based multinational company, acquired VMware Inc. for $61 billion. This acquisition is aimed at bringing together their engineering-first, innovation-centric teams to build the world's leading infrastructure technology. The focus moving forward is to enable enterprise customers to create and modernize their private and hybrid cloud environments. VMware Inc. is a US-based virtualization and cloud computing software company that offers a Cloud Native Storage (CNS) solution.

Major companies operating in the cloud native storage market are Microsoft Corporation, Dell Technologies Inc., Amazon Web Services Inc., International Business Machines Corporation, Google Cloud Platform, VMware Inc., NetApp Inc., Citrix Systems Inc., Nexenta Inc., Pure Storage Inc., Longhorn Inc., Scality Inc., DataCore Software Corp., StorCentric Inc., Zadara Storage Inc., Diamanti Inc., Rookout Inc., Kasten Inc., Tiger Technology Ltd., Robin.io Inc., MinIO Inc., WekaIO Inc., Quobyte Inc., Portworx Inc., OpenEBS Inc.

North America was the largest region in the cloud native storage market in 2024. The regions covered in the cloud native storage market report are Asia-Pacific, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, Africa. The countries covered in the cloud native storage market report are Australia, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Korea, UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Spain.

The cloud-native storage market consists of revenues earned by entities by providing services such as object storage services, block storage services, file storage services, container storage interfaces, multi-cloud and hybrid cloud support, data management and automation, security, and compliance. The market value includes the value of related goods sold by the service provider or included within the service offering. Only goods and services traded between entities or sold to end consumers are included. The cloud-native storage market consists of sales of distributed storage systems, monitoring tools, and management tools. 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).

Cloud-native storage refers to storage solutions designed specifically to operate within cloud computing environments, leveraging the scalability, flexibility, and distributed nature of the cloud. These storage systems are optimized for deployment in cloud-native architectures, which typically involve microservices, containers, and orchestration platforms.

The main types of components in cloud native storage are solutions and services. A solution refers to a comprehensive approach or set of technologies, tools, and practices designed to address storage requirements and challenges specific to cloud-native environments. It includes various deployments by the public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud, which are used for different applications including backup and recovery, content delivery, big data and analytics, data archiving, database storage management, and end-users are banking, financial services and insurance, information technology and telecom, healthcare, retail and consumer goods, manufacturing, government, energy and utilities, media and entertainment, and others.

The main types of components in cloud native storage are solutions and services. A solution refers to a comprehensive approach or set of technologies, tools, and practices designed to address storage requirements and challenges specific to cloud-native environments. It includes various deployments by the public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid cloud, which are used for different applications including backup and recovery, content delivery, big data and analytics, data archiving, database storage management, and end-users are banking, financial services and insurance, information technology and telecom, healthcare, retail and consumer goods, manufacturing, government, energy and utilities, media and entertainment, and others.

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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