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

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
• Learn More
  • Related Research
  • Synopsis