Worldwide Storage Software 2006-2010 Forecast Update and 2005 Vendor Shares

This IDC study provides vendor revenue and market shares for the worldwide storage software market in 2005. It also provides market forecasts as of August 2005 for the storage software market for the period from 2005 to 2010. Forecasts are provided for the total market by geographic region and operating environment.

According to Doug Chandler, program director, IDC Storage Software, "The storage software market continues to see solid growth, reflecting the ongoing challenge that customers face in managing their storage environments effectively. We expect this growth to continue across the forecast period as customers face operational and business pressures that increasingly impinge on their storage implementations and strategies. Moving forward, IDC expects customer adoption of new technologies such as storage virtualization, content-aware applications, and continuous data protection techniques to alter the course of this market and lead to new opportunities for suppliers in this space."