Japan Storage Utility Service 2007-2011 Forecast and 2006 Vendor Shares

This IDC study (which is a translation of the Japanese report IDC #J7400314) presents an analysis of the Japan storage utility services market's revenue performance in 2006 as well as forecasts from 2007 to 2011. IDC analyzes the storage utility services market from two perspectives ¾ the types of services provided and the types of connection used. By IDC's taxonomy, there are two types of services ¾ "primary data outsourcing" and "backup and archive service." Likewise, there are two connection types ¾ "datacenter connection" and "Internet/remote connection."

"There was a huge gap in market conditions for the datacenter storage services segment and the Internet/remote storage services segment in the 2006 Japan storage utility services market. In contrast to the smooth growth seen in the Internet/remote storage services segment since 2005, the datacenter storage services segment was unable to overcome the trend toward high value-added server business. As part of their efforts to provide comprehensive services to datacenter users, it will be important for SPs to see how much they can contribute to the improvement of user satisfaction in the datacenter storage services segment rather than focus on service profitability by providing storage functions," observes Yasusuke Suzuki, research manager, Storage Systems, IDC.