This presentation sizes the Western European disk storage systems market. The slides included offer insight into the following disk systems market segments: revenue and capacity consumption, total external and external RAID, networked storage, storage price bands, trends for select Western European countries, trends for select suppliers.

High-level forecasts have also been added to this presentation, but readers should refer to IDC's Western European Disk Storage Systems Forecast and Analysis, 2005-2010 for more detailed forecast trends and analysis. This presentation was created for subscribers of IDC's Western European Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker and given shortly after the final 2Q06 data was published on September 1, 2006.