2006 European Storage Survey

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• IDC Opinion
• In This Study
  • Methodology
    • Definitions
• Situation Overview
  • Storage Spending
  • Figure: Storage Spending Past 12 Months
  • Figure: Storage Spending Next 12 Months
  • Figure: Storage Spending Next 12 Months Over Last Five Years
  • Figure: Storage Spending Last 12 Months Over Last Four Years
    • Country Outlook
    • Table: Next 12 Months' Storage Spending by Country
    • Figure: Storage Spending Next 12 Months by Country
    • Company Size
    • Table: Next 12 Months' Storage Spending by Size of Company
    • Figure: Storage Spending Next 12 Months by Number of Employees
    • Spending Increase Quantified
    • Figure: Storage Spending Next 12 Months by How Much
    • Last Year Compared With Next Year' s Expectations
    • Figure: Comparing Past Year Spending With Next Year
      • Application Driving Storage
    • Top 3 Applications Driving Storage Spending
    • Table: Storage Spending by Application Type
    • Figure: Storage Spending by Application Type
      • Top 3 Storage Priorities
      • Table: Top 3 Storage Priorities
      • Figure: Top 3 Storage Priorities
      • Table: Top 3 Storage Priorities by Size of Company
  • Networked Storage Trends
  • Table: How Many Separate SANs Do You Have Installed in Your Organization?
  • Figure: SAN Adoption, 2003-2005
  • Table: How Many Separate SANs Do You Have Installed in Your Organization?
  • Figure: SAN Adoption by Company Size
  • Table: SAN Adoption by Country
  • Figure: SAN Adoption by Country and Year
  • Table: Top Priorities Relating to SAN Spending
  • Figure: Top Priorities Relating to SAN Spending
  • Table: How Many NAS Devices Do You Have Installed?
  • Figure: How Many NAS Devices Do You Have Installed?
  • Table: Primary NAS Usage
  • Figure: NAS Usage
    • Technology Adoption
    • Table: Storage Technology Adoption Stages
    • Figure: Storage Technology Adoption Stages
    • Table: Most Important Features Related to Storage Virtualization
    • Figure: Most Important Features Related to Storage Virtualization
    • Figure: Blade Server Adoption
    • Figure: Hard Disk Drive Usage
    • Figure: Reasons for NOT Adopting Capacity Optimized HDDs
    • Figure: Applications Best Suited for Capacity Optimized Drives
    • Network Convergence
    • Figure: Network Convergence
  • Data Protection
  • Table: Amount Disk Space Used for Backup/Protection
  • Figure: Amount Disk Space Used for Backup/Protection
  • Table: Amount Disk Space Used for Which Applications
  • Figure: Amount Disk Space Used for Which Applications
    • Storage Outages
    • Figure: Cause of Storage Downtime
  • Pre-Sales Behavior of Storage Customers
    • Most Trusted Information Sources
    • Figure: Trusted Source of Information
    • Supplier Pre-Sales Information
    • Figure: Provider Information Provision Efficiency
    • Storage Hardware Supplier Selection Criteria
    • Figure: Vendor Selection Criteria
    • Storage Supplier Type
    • Figure: Storage Supplier Preference
• Future Outlook
• Essential Guidance
  • Appendix
    • General information
    • IT and Storage Spending
    • Storage Environments
    • New Technology
    • Data Protection
    • Pre-Sales Information
• Learn More
  • Related Research
  • Synopsis