歐洲貯藏市場預測（2006年）

Abstract

This document offers data and analysis of IDC' s 2006 European storage survey, which was conducted by telephone during the fourth calendar quarter of 2006. 504 end users were surveyed in the U.K./Ireland, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and the Nordics. All respondents were either directly involved in storage purchasing or had some type of influence over storage purchases.

"IDC' s European storage survey has been conducted consecutively for five years and again in 2006 the vast majority of respondents either predict same size storage budgets, if not increased budgets," said Claus Egge, program director, European Storage research. "Customers have a real demand for many of the exciting developments in storage. The industry' s challenge is to understand what they need and to take customers through successful implementation."

Among other things, the 2006 survey was intended to:

• Explore attitudes to past and future investments in storage
• Determine end-user adoption of networked storage
• Explore key drivers for storage and priorities of storage customers
• Look at disk being used in data protection
• Explore customer attitudes towards industry when learning and selecting new solutions

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• IDC Opinion
• In This Study
  • Methodology
    • Definitions
• Situation Overview
  • Storage Spending
  • Figure: Storage Spending Past 12 Months
  • Figure: Storage Spending Next 12 Months
  • Figure: Storage Spending Next 12 Months Over Last Five Years
  • Figure: Storage Spending Last 12 Months Over Last Four Years
    • Country Outlook
    • Table: Next 12 Months' Storage Spending by Country
    • Figure: Storage Spending Next 12 Months by Country
    • Company Size
    • Table: Next 12 Months' Storage Spending by Size of Company
    • Figure: Storage Spending Next 12 Months by Number of Employees
    • Spending Increase Quantified
    • Figure: Storage Spending Next 12 Months by How Much
    • Last Year Compared With Next Year' s Expectations
    • Figure: Comparing Past Year Spending With Next Year
      • Application Driving Storage
    • Top 3 Applications Driving Storage Spending
    • Table: Storage Spending by Application Type
    • Figure: Storage Spending by Application Type
      • Top 3 Storage Priorities
      • Table: Top 3 Storage Priorities
      • Figure: Top 3 Storage Priorities
      • Table: Top 3 Storage Priorities by Size of Company
  • Networked Storage Trends
  • Table: How Many Separate SANs Do You Have Installed in Your Organization?
  • Figure: SAN Adoption, 2003-2005
  • Table: How Many Separate SANs Do You Have Installed in Your Organization?
  • Figure: SAN Adoption by Company Size
  • Table: SAN Adoption by Country
  • Figure: SAN Adoption by Country and Year
  • Table: Top Priorities Relating to SAN Spending
  • Figure: Top Priorities Relating to SAN Spending
  • Table: How Many NAS Devices Do You Have Installed?
  • Figure: How Many NAS Devices Do You Have Installed?
  • Table: Primary NAS Usage
  • Figure: NAS Usage
    • Technology Adoption
    • Table: Storage Technology Adoption Stages
    • Figure: Storage Technology Adoption Stages
    • Table: Most Important Features Related to Storage Virtualization
    • Figure: Most Important Features Related to Storage Virtualization
    • Figure: Blade Server Adoption
    • Figure: Hard Disk Drive Usage
    • Figure: Reasons for NOT Adopting Capacity Optimized HDDs
    • Figure: Applications Best Suited for Capacity Optimized Drives
    • Network Convergence
    • Figure: Network Convergence
  • Data Protection
  • Table: Amount Disk Space Used for Backup/Protection
  • Figure: Amount Disk Space Used for Backup/Protection
  • Table: Amount Disk Space Used for Which Applications
  • Figure: Amount Disk Space Used for Which Applications
    • Storage Outages
    • Figure: Cause of Storage Downtime
  • Pre-Sales Behavior of Storage Customers
    • Most Trusted Information Sources
    • Figure: Trusted Source of Information
    • Supplier Pre-Sales Information
    • Figure: Provider Information Provision Efficiency
    • Storage Hardware Supplier Selection Criteria
    • Figure: Vendor Selection Criteria
    • Storage Supplier Type
    • Figure: Storage Supplier Preference
• Future Outlook
• Essential Guidance
  • Appendix
    • General information
    • IT and Storage Spending
    • Storage Environments
    • New Technology
    • Data Protection
    • Pre-Sales Information
• Learn More
  • Related Research
  • Synopsis