This IDC study presents a forecast and study of the storage device management market. Revenue will increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.6% from 2007 to 2012. There are new products coming out, but this market is a rather mature and established market, so these will have very little impact in terms of the overall market growth.

"Storage device management software will fly under the radar when compared with other markets in storage software, but it is just as essential in the life cycle of the data on the storage," said Michael Margossian, research analyst in IDC's Storage Software program.