This IDC study provides market forecasts as of July 2008 for the storage software market for 2008 to 2012. Forecasts are provided for the total market by functional market and by Western European country.

"The Western European storage software market has performed very well in 2007 in dollar terms, but the forecast has been adjusted downwards slightly due to the cautious economic outlook for Western Europe," said Carla Arend, program manager, European Storage Software and Services. "Market growth is driven by business continuity and disaster recovery concerns of Western European organizations, as well as increasing efforts to develop sound data protection and efficient management strategies for virtualized server environments."