IDC's Asia/Pacific Disk Storage Systems research provides insight, and both annual and semiannual market data relating to this high growth segment. It provides a country-level view of the market, together with an annual forecast, and an updated forecast when the half-year data becomes available. This service is valuable to vendors seeking to understand market drivers, compare the various country markets in Asia/Pacific, as well as compare growth of this key market with allied markets such as storage software, storage services, or market growth rates for secondary storage.

This service covers the following segments of the Disk Storage Systems market:

• Disk storage systems
• Country-level coverage, including Australia, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, PRC, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and rest of Asia Pacific
• Fibre channel storage switches
• Network storage including SANs and NAS
• Major technology or market changes

Throughout the year, this service will address the following topics:

• Vendor profiles and market strategies
• Market dynamics
• Market size and growth by country
• Vendor strategies and market positioning
• Vendor assessments and market share
• 5-year GB shipment and value forecasts
• Forecast factors and assumptions
• Technology issues and adoption trends
• Product trends and positioning
• Vertical markets
• Top share generators

Our research addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

1. What were the key market drivers in 2008, and how will these impact on the market in 2009?
2. How will storage system vendors add value and differentiate their products in an increasingly competitive market?
3. How are the market leaders positioned, and how is this likely to change in the future? What are the strategies of the major disk storage systems vendors in Asia/Pacific?
4. Will storage consolidation trends, storage utilities and storage service providers become prominent in Asia/Pacific?
5. What is the impact of emerging storage technologies on the Asia/Pacific disk storage systems market?
6. How quickly are users in key markets adopting network storage architectures?

IDC's Asia/Pacific Disk Storage Systems service examines how disk storage system and storage switch vendors are positioning themselves to compete in the storage market. This service reviews strategies, market positioning, and future direction of several vendors including:

Brocade, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi Data Systems, HP, IBM, Network Appliance, and Sun Microsystems.

This service focuses on the following core research. In addition to the insight provided in this service, IDC may conduct additional research on specific topics, or emerging market segments, via research offerings that require additional IDC funding and client investment.

The Databook provides detailed market sizing and vendor market share for 2008. It includes regional totals and separate data for each of the 13 countries in the region.

This study discusses key drivers, country-specific issues, top share generators, and vendor outlook. It also provides detailed forecasts for the region and each country to 2013.

This document provides vertical market sizing and comparisons for the 13 country markets in the region.

The profiles of three key vendors operating in the Asia/Pacific region are included in the research agenda in 2009.

This document provides an update on the rate of adoption and outlook by country for the adoption of network storage infrastructure.

This document provides market data relating to the fibre channel switches market in 2008, and forecasts for this market segment from 2009 to 2013.

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