Expanding Options for File Services: Addressing Organizations' Increasingly Diverse File-Based Storage Needs

Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• IDC Opinion
• In This Study
• Situation Overview
  • Growth of File-Level, Unstructured Data
  • Figure: Worldwide File and Block Disk Storage Systems, 2005-2008
    • File System Categories by Scale
    • File System Categories Based on Usage
    • Table: File System Functional Markets
    • Current File System Use Scenarios
  • File System Packaging
• Future Outlook
• Figure: Worldwide File and Block Disk Storage Systems, 2005-2011
  • Asset Consolidation and Operational Efficiency Drive Organizations' General-Purpose File Requirements
  • Application-Specific Data Growth Creates New File Storage Management Issues
  • Content-Driven Businesses Drive New File Services Models
• Essential Guidance
  • For Enterprise Organizations
  • For Storage Solution Suppliers
• Learn More
  • Related Research
  • Synopsis