This IDC study provides a competitive analysis of Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) or APEJ's top infrastructure management software vendors. It provides an analysis of the competitive dynamics that drive the market in this region through an analysis on the strategies, performance, product developments, and so forth of the top vendors.

"The overall infrastructure software for APEJ market was estimated to be worth US$5715.0 million in 2007, growing about 12.5% over the previous year. By 2012, IDC estimates the market to be worth US$9855.5 million, significantly driven by PRC and India," says Adren Lim, market analyst, Software Research, IDC Asia/Pacific. "Storage and security software is expected to have a solid run going into the future, backed by consolidation and compliance initiatives within public and private sectors, while systems and network management software (SNMS) and system software should be less robust. Vendors get busy broadening their portfolio through acquisitions and partnerships to offer added value and adopt the one-stop-shop strategy for their solutions, but success depends very much on the speed on which these acquired resources can be put together and brought to their customers without added complexity."