Abstract
"IDC' s survey of 500 European storage experts tells us quite a bit about the
storage pain points and procurement intentions in the market," said Eric
Sheppard, program manager for IDC' s European Storage Program. "What we know
from these surveys is that storage is often deployed sub-optimally and used
relatively inefficiently. Suppliers and their partners should therefore be
working to ensure that these companies understand how they can benefit from
some of the more advanced storage features like data deduplication, or
thin/dynamic provisioning while also demonstrating the benefits of utilizing
advanced storage management software."
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents
- IDC Opinion
- In This Study
- Situation Overview
- Storage Spending
- Figure: Storage Spending Past 12 Months
- Figure: Storage Spending Next 12 Months
- Table: Next 12 Months Storage Spending by Country
- Figure: Storage Spending Last 12 Months, by Country
- Figure: Storage Spending Next 12 Months, by Country
- Figure: Increase in Storage Spending by Country
- Spending by Storage Technology
- Figure: Storage Spending by Technology
- Figure: Storage Spending by Technology and Number of Servers Installed
- Top Priorities and Applications Related to Storage Spending
- Table: Storage Spending by Application Type
- Figure: Storage Spending by Application
- Table: Top 3 Storage Priorities
- Figure: Top 3 Storage Priorities
- Networked Storage Trends
- Figure: Storage Area Network Adoption Rates, 2003-2007
- Figure: Storage Area Network Adoption Rates by Number of Servers Installed
- Figure: SAN Host Connection Types
- Figure: SAN Host Connection Types by Number of Servers Installed
- Figure: Top Two SAN Priorities
- Figure: Top SAN Priorities Current Survey Versus Last Survey
- Networked Storage; On the Cusp of Change
- Data Protection Trends
- Figure: Disk-Based Data Protection Adoption
- Figure: Disk-Based Data Protection Adoption by Country
- Figure: Total Capacity by Type of Hard Disk Drive
- Figure: Total Capacity by Type of Hard Disk Drive and Total Capacity Installed
- Figure: Disk-Based Data Protection by Technology
- Exploring Disk-Based Data Protection' s Benefits and Impact to Other Technologies
- Figure: Disk-Based Data Protection' s Impact on Tape
- Figure: Disk-Based Data Protection' s Impact on Tape, by Country
- Figure: Important Features/Benefits of Disk-Based Data Protection
- Figure: Top Drivers of Virtual Tape Library
- Server and Storage Virtualization
- Server Virtualization
- Figure: Server Virtualization Adoption
- Figure: Server Virtualization Adoption by Number of Servers Installed
- Figure: Server Virtualization Adoption by Country
- Figure: Server/Storage Interconnections In Virtualized Server Environments
- Figure: Server/Storage Interconnections In Virtualized Server Environments, by Number of Servers
- Storage Virtualization
- Figure: Storage Virtualization Adoption
- Figure: Impact of Storage Virtualization
- Figure: Reasons For Not Deploying Storage Virtualization
- Figure: Storage Virtualization Usage In Server Virtualization and Non-Server Virtualization Environments
- Storage Utilization and Provisioning
- Figure: Satisfaction With Current Storage Utilization and Provisioning Methods
- Figure: Satisfaction With Current Storage Utilization and Provisioning Methods
- Figure: Thin or Dynamic Provisioning Awareness and Adoption
- Figure: Reasons for Not Deploying Thing/Dynamic Provisioning
- Future Outlook
- Essential Guidance
- Appendix
- General Information
- Storage Environments
- Data Protection
- Virtualization
- Storage Provisioning
- Learn More
- Related Research
- Synopsis
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