IDC is
pleased to announce the availability of an important research study
entitled, Worldwide Storage-as-a-Service Market Size and
2008-2012 Forecast. This study is the last in a series
of three documents included as part of IDC’s
Storage-as-a-Service research.
Research Overview
Storage-as-a-service is more than just a viable alternative for
organizations and individual customers: it is a precursor to the longer
term cloud storage and cloud computing opportunity. As consumers and
business organizations continue to generate vast amounts of data and
seek optimum methods to store and protect them, the growth of storage
capacities delivered through storage-as-a-service offerings will
outpace traditional storage architectures and offer numerous
opportunities.
This IDC study presents a five-year forecast of the worldwide
storage-as-a-service market for 2008-2012. With expectations
that customers will continue to invest strongly in various forms of
online storage services, IDC forecasts this market to pass the $3
billion mark by 2012, with a compound annual growth rate greater than
29% from 2007 to 2012.
Key Results
- The drivers for adoption of different
storage-as-a-service offerings are cost savings and the ability to
outsource IT tasks to a third party.
- The inhibitors with adoption of online services are
overwhelmingly concerns with the firms’ data security and
privacy, and on a second order, the perceptions that the cost
savings do not justify the change.
- The economic climate in late 2008 and over the next
18-24 months will result in a slight acceleration in consideration and
evaluation of online services as overall IT capital and operating
budgets flatten or compress.
Holistic Picture
To gain a holistic picture of the storage-as-a-service opportunity,
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Benefits:
- Identify key
drivers and inhibitors to market growth.
- Uncover the detailed market size and forecast for three distinct workloads: online backup, archiving, and
replication services.
- Identify
strategy to overcome barriers to entry.
- Gain key knowledge
to build a sound go-to-market plan and capitalize on the
storage-as-a-service opportunity.
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Who Should Buy:
- Storage hardware,
software, and services suppliers
- Service providers
- Web 2.0 firms
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Methodology:
- In-depth
interviews/case studies with 40 storage-as-a-service suppliers
- Quantitative online
survey of 812 U.S. firms
- Telephone survey of
1,000 individuals
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