IDC's 2005 European Storage Survey: Users Convey Healthy Storage Budgets and a

IDC's 2005 European Storage Survey: Users Convey Healthy Storage Budgets and a Desire to Invest in Traditional Applications Rather Than New Technologies

Product Type: Market Research Report
Published by: IDC
Published: January 2006
Product Code: R104-24403

Description

This document offers data and analysis of IDC's 2005 European storage survey, which was conducted by phone during the fourth calendar quarter of 2005. 508 end users were surveyed in the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, Spain, and the Nordics. All respondents were either directly involved in storage purchasing or had some type of influence over storage purchases.

"Customers expect their budgets allocated to storage to remain intact if not increase," said Claus Egge, program director European Storage research. "Many of the recent solutions, such as SAN, NAS, iSCSI, and Serial ATA are recognized as valuable by more and more customers."

Among other things, this survey is intended to:

Document past and future investments in storage Determine end-user adoption of storage area networks, network attached storage, iSCSI, Serial ATA and virtualization Key drivers for storage and priorities of storage customers Key concerns surrounding current backup solutions

Table of Contents

Table of Contents
IDC Opinion
In This Study
Methodology
Situation Overview
Storage Spending
Figure: Storage Spending, Past 12 Months
Figure: Storage Spending, Next 12 Months
Figure: Amount of Spending Increase
Table: Next 12 Months Storage Spending by Size of Company
Figure: Storage Spending by Company Size
Table: Next 12 Months Storage Spending by Country
Figure: Next 12 Months Storage Spending by Country
Figure: Comparing Past Year Expenditure With Next Year
Storage Budget Drivers
Table: Storage Spending by Application Type
Figure: Storage Spending by Application Type
Storage Priorities
Table: Top 3 Storage Priorities
Figure: Top 3 Storage Priorities
Table: Top 3 Storage Priorities by Size of Company
iSCSI
Table: iSCSI Usage
Figure: iSCSI usage
Table: Attitudes to iSCSI and Storage Management
Figure: Attitudes to iSCSI and Storage Management
SAN and NAS
Table: How Many Separate SANs do You Have Installed in Your Organizations?
Figure: SAN Adoption
Table: How Many Separate SANs do You Have Installed in your Organizations?
Figure: SAN Adoption by Company size
Figure: SAN Adoption by Country 2004 and 2005
Table: Top priorities relating to SAN spending
Figure: Top Priorities Relating to SAN Spending
Table: How Many NAS Devices do you Have Installed?
Figure: NAS progress
Table: Primary NAS usage
Figure: NAS Usage
New Technology
Table: Please State the Progress of the Following New Storage Technology Concepts
Figure: Progress of New Technologies
Table: Most Important Features Related to Virtualization Products
Figure: Most Important Features Related to Virtualization Products
Figure: Blade Server Deployment
Table: Plan for Provision of Storage for Blade Servers
Figure: Plans for Provision of Storage For Blade Servers
Figure: Serial ATA-Based Array Intentions
Table: Applications to Use High Capacity Drives as Serial ATA
Figure: Applications to Use High Capacity Drives as Serial ATA
Data Protection
Tape Environment
Table: Backup Environment
Figure: Backup Environment
Table: Tape Challenges
Figure: Tape Challenges
Preferred Solutions to Tape Challenges
Table: Preferred Solution to Tape Challenges
Figure: Preferred Solution to Tape Challenges
Table: Integration of Disk as Part of Backup Solution
Figure: Integration of Disk as Part of Backup Solution
Table: Preferred Vendor Type
Figure: Preferred Vendor Type
Data access
Table: Age of Data
Figure: Age of Data
Table: Company Data Located on PCs
Figure: Company Data Located on PCs
Table: Time Required for Data RecoveryQ. How much time is required to recover data that is:
Future Outlook
Essential Guidance
Appendix
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Related Research
Synopsis

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