This IDC study provides a top-down sizing of the storage management software market in 2005 and a 2006-2010 forecast for this market. Historical and forecast revenue data is shown for the total worldwide market and by geographic region and operating environment. This document examines the performance of the storage management software market over the past 12 months and looks at the key drivers and inhibitors to the growth rate of the market over the forecast period.

"As user needs for more effective, centralized storage administration continue to go unmet, there is an opportunity for storage management solutions that can provide deep functionality to address specific problems such as utilization, performance, capacity planning, and change management within the storage administration community," said Laura DuBois, research director for IDC's Storage Software program.