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Top 10 Predictions in Storage in 2006Product Type: Market Research ReportPublished by: IDC Published: March 2006 Product Code: R104-24252 Description
This IDC study reviews IDC's storage team's 2005 storage predictions and highlights the major technology and market forces that will shape the storage industry in 2006. It also discusses a number of issues that will begin to affect the market in 2007 and beyond. "IDC's top 10 storage predictions continue to reflect some of the dynamics we've noted in previous years. However, this year's predictions also reflect the impact of various natural disasters as well as the growing opportunity from smaller, less sophisticated consumers of storage." ? Dave Reinsel, director, Storage Research Table of Contents
Table of ContentsPredictions In This Study Situation Overview On-Target Predictions Off-Target Predictions Off the Radar Future Outlook Remote Datacenters for More Rapid Disaster Recovery Will Become an Important Strategic Initiative for Midsize Businesses Storage Security Solutions Will Become an Increasingly Important Dimension of Storage Management Plans Disk-to-Disk and Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Architectures Will Continue to Gain Momentum SMB Market Will Prove Largely Unwilling to Adopt Low-Cost Fibre Channel SAN-Attached Arrays Not Using Windows Storage Features File-Level Services Will Continue to Garner Focus and Marketing Efforts and Spark Partnerships Storage Virtualization Will Emerge as a Key Competitive Battleground for Storage Suppliers New Wave of Data and Information Management Vendors Will Emerge Trend Toward Tape Automation Will Continue Total Volume of HDD Shipments with Serial Interfaces Will Eclipse Parallel Interfaces Adoption of Blue Laser Technology Will Be Relatively Minimal Not in CY06 But on the Horizon Consumer Storage Continues to Accelerate Distant Drums for Infiniband and SAS Host Interconnects Get Louder Low-Cost 10Gb Ethernet at the End of 2006 Sets the Stage for More iSCSI Disruption SAN Solutions Become Problems Essential Guidance Learn More Related Research Synopsis |
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