Disaster Recovery and Disk-Based Data Protection, Investments Made During Uncertain Times: IDC's Annual European Storage Survey, 2007

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
  • Table: Next 12 Months Storage Spending by Country
  • Figure: Storage Spending Last 12 Months, by Country
  • Figure: Storage Spending Next 12 Months, by Country
  • Figure: Increase in Storage Spending by Country
    • Spending by Storage Technology
    • Figure: Storage Spending by Technology
    • Figure: Storage Spending by Technology and Number of Servers Installed
    • Top Priorities and Applications Related to Storage Spending
    • Table: Storage Spending by Application Type
    • Figure: Storage Spending by Application
    • Table: Top 3 Storage Priorities
    • Figure: Top 3 Storage Priorities
  • Networked Storage Trends
  • Figure: Storage Area Network Adoption Rates, 2003-2007
  • Figure: Storage Area Network Adoption Rates by Number of Servers Installed
  • Figure: SAN Host Connection Types
  • Figure: SAN Host Connection Types by Number of Servers Installed
  • Figure: Top Two SAN Priorities
  • Figure: Top SAN Priorities Current Survey Versus Last Survey
    • Networked Storage; On the Cusp of Change
  • Data Protection Trends
  • Figure: Disk-Based Data Protection Adoption
  • Figure: Disk-Based Data Protection Adoption by Country
  • Figure: Total Capacity by Type of Hard Disk Drive
  • Figure: Total Capacity by Type of Hard Disk Drive and Total Capacity Installed
  • Figure: Disk-Based Data Protection by Technology
    • Exploring Disk-Based Data Protection' s Benefits and Impact to Other Technologies
    • Figure: Disk-Based Data Protection' s Impact on Tape
    • Figure: Disk-Based Data Protection' s Impact on Tape, by Country
    • Figure: Important Features/Benefits of Disk-Based Data Protection
    • Figure: Top Drivers of Virtual Tape Library
  • Server and Storage Virtualization
    • Server Virtualization
    • Figure: Server Virtualization Adoption
    • Figure: Server Virtualization Adoption by Number of Servers Installed
    • Figure: Server Virtualization Adoption by Country
    • Figure: Server/Storage Interconnections In Virtualized Server Environments
    • Figure: Server/Storage Interconnections In Virtualized Server Environments, by Number of Servers
    • Storage Virtualization
    • Figure: Storage Virtualization Adoption
    • Figure: Impact of Storage Virtualization
    • Figure: Reasons For Not Deploying Storage Virtualization
    • Figure: Storage Virtualization Usage In Server Virtualization and Non-Server Virtualization Environments
  • Storage Utilization and Provisioning
  • Figure: Satisfaction With Current Storage Utilization and Provisioning Methods
  • Figure: Satisfaction With Current Storage Utilization and Provisioning Methods
  • Figure: Thin or Dynamic Provisioning Awareness and Adoption
  • Figure: Reasons for Not Deploying Thing/Dynamic Provisioning
• Future Outlook
• Essential Guidance
  • Appendix
    • General Information
    • Storage Environments
    • Data Protection
    • Virtualization
    • Storage Provisioning
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  • Related Research
  • Synopsis