This IDC study provides an overview of the disk storage market based on the current China storage market tracker for 2005, with an emphasis on storage capacity and customer revenue. It introduces China's market drivers and inhibitors, as well as an industry overview with highlights for the top 3 industries, as well as regional statistics to describe the market's dynamic trends. Furthermore, IDC provides a five-year market forecast including breakdowns by OS and network.

"The competition among HP, IBM, and EMC will further heat up in most major industries. Although HP led the disk market in 2005, this mutable market position is being closely watched by both IBM and EMC. As midrange storage made up the majority of the market, EMC and IBM both have extensive opportunities to show their strengths in both hardware reliability and software maturity. While distributors reorganize and vendors merge, a few major players are conquering a large portion of the market, driving market trends and forcing users to pick sides. Moreover, the emergence of new technologies will further impact market competition and put pressure on mature vendors. From the user perspective, a large scale of capacity and a high quality of reliability are what vendors must provide in the future," says Vicki Cui, research manager, Enterprise Systems and Storage, IDC China.