This IDC study provides vendor revenue and market shares for the worldwide storage replication software market in 2005. Overall market sizes are presented for three geographic regions and eight major operating environments.

According to Rhoda Phillips, IDC research manager, Storage Software, "Customers are increasing their solutions for disaster recovery as a result of the volatility of the business environment. Value propositions such as how to execute data protection, disaster recovery, and business continuance policies will continue to be motivating factors for IT investments, stimulating continued growth in the market for storage replication software."