IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker greatly enhances clients' ability to quickly and effectively respond to today's dynamic storage market. Understanding which global markets and segments are growing and knowing the quarterly adoption curve for new products have become business-critical needs for disk storage vendors, supply chain partners, and the Wall Street financial community. This product provides insight into customer trends by delivering geography-specific vendor and product-line detail across all storage segments. IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker presents market data in an easy-to-use, interactive format that allows clients to easily view specific submarkets in customizable layouts. IDC's Tracker products provide reliable, accurate, independent market research as a base to create quantitative market analyses and study historical trends.

• RAID/JBOD
• Storage location: Internal or external
• Installation environment: DAS, SAN, NAS, ESCON SAN, iSCSI
• Regions: United States, Canada, Latin America, Western Europe, Central/Eastern Europe, Asia/Pacific, Japan, Middle East/Africa
• Over 60 countries tracked

Disk storage systems are defined as a set of storage elements, including controllers, cables, and (in some cases) host bus adapters associated with three or more disk drives. A system can be located outside or within a server cabinet.

Throughout the year, this product will address the following topics:

• Nine price bands based on average selling value
• Operating system: Linux, Unix, Windows, NOS, z/OS, i5/OS, others
• Top vendors by product line
• Segment measurement: Factory revenue, customer revenue, units, terabytes
• Time frame: Quarterly data as of 4Q01

Our research addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

1. How does price per gigabyte vary by vendor by region?
2. Which vendors are gaining/losing market share?
3. Is networked storage expanding in all price bands?
4. Which major vendors are supporting iSCSI?
5. Are terabytes shipped continuing to grow aggressively?
6. Is internal storage going away?
7. Do customers buy larger systems?

IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker is essential for tracking competitors in the disk storage systems space. This product is updated quarterly, providing the latest information for ongoing business planning activities. Built on the foundation of IDC's worldwide network of experienced market analysts, this research uses both top-down and bottom-up methodologies to match close operational market knowledge with global company financial modeling. A representative list of these vendors may include Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, IBM, NEC, NetApp, and Sun Microsystems.

Clients receive quarterly delivery and IDC support, including:

• Quarterly data files delivered 10 weeks after the end of each calendar-year quarter.
• One day of onsite training at any location in the United States and inquiry time for supporting questions regarding data usages are provided.
• Quarterly press release providing analysis into trends, products, or company insights.