IDC's Asia/Pacific Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker® provides timely market information relating to the disk storage systems market, in terms of new capacity shipped, factory revenue, and end-user revenue of the shipments, in each of the 13 countries in Asia/Pacific, as well as the rest of Asia/Pacific (ROAP) subregion.

This product provides insight into the impact of market changes, key trends, and the results of vendors' new products, marketing, and channel activities. It delivers the information in a format that is flexible and easy to use and access. It also includes a succinct summary of market information and vendor activity for each quarter. This information is a useful tool for product management and market planning purposes.

Technology Coverage and Data Segmentation

IDC's Asia/Pacific Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker provides total market size and vendor share for the following technology areas and segmentations. Measurements for this tracker are in factory revenue, end-user revenue, terabytes, and units shipped.

Technologies and subtechnologies:

• Breakdown by internal and external storage
• Breakdown by operating system
• Breakdown by protocol
• Breakdown by storage class
• Breakdown by price band (upon request)
• Breakdown by redundancy (upon request)

Segmentations:

• Channels: Direct, dealer, systems integrator, value-added reseller, and others (upon request)
• Segments: Education, government, small business, medium-sized business, large business, and very large business (upon request)
• Verticals: Banking, communications and media, construction, consumer and recreational services, discrete manufacturing, education, government, healthcare, insurance, process manufacturing, professional services, resource industries, retail, securities and investment services, transportation, utilities, and wholesale (upon request)

Geographic Scope

• Asia/Pacific excluding Japan (Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and the rest of Asia/Pacific)
• Japan (available as an option)

Forecast Coverage

Forecasts for this tracker are updated quarterly. Both annual forecasts and quarterly forecasts are available. Forecasts are done at country levels. The segmentations being forecast in this tracker include:

• Internal and external
• Operating system
• Protocol
• Redundancy (upon request)
• Storage class
• Price band (upon request)
• Vertical (upon request)

Delivery Schedule and Deliverables

This tracker is delivered on a quarterly basis with tools such as formatted tables and pivot tables. The delivery schedule for this tracker is as follows:

• Prelim Historical Data Set (preliminary data): Day 60 after period closes
• Final Historical Pivot (final data): Day 65 after period closes
• Custom Pivot (channels/segments/verticals): Day 75 after period closes
• Forecast Pivot (forecast data): Day 85 after period closes
• Final Historical Report (qualitative report): Day 90 after period closes