12:00 - 1:00 p.m. U.S. Eastern Time

Europe's storage market is a large and complex environment with a considerable number of market forces driving demand for each of its components. During this IDC telebriefing, Carla Arend and Eric Sheppard will help listeners navigate through these complex environments while providing an overview of Europe's total storage market and major trends within each of its segments. The market segments included for this telebriefing are: disk storage systems, storage software, storage services, tape automation, and fibre channel switches.

Some questions that IDC intends to answer during this telebriefing include:

• What are the major drivers causing European companies to invest in storage?
• Which market segments are expected to help alleviate current pain points within storage environments today and over the next five years?
• What are the hot storage topics and how do they play out in Europe?

Session Speakers:

• Carla Arend, Program Manager, European Infrastructure Software
• Eric Sheppard, Program Manager, European Disk Storage Systems

If you do not subscribe to IDC's services and would like to participate, please contact Michael Shirer at 508-988-7892 or [email protected].

Audio replays of this telebriefing are available to all registered participants the day after the event.