IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker provides the ability to respond quickly and effectively to today's dynamic storage software market by keeping pace with evolving functionality and the rapid deployment of new models competing in the marketplace. Learning which global markets are growing and understanding the quarterly adoption curve for new products have become business-critical needs for storage vendors, supply chain partners, and the investment community. With quarterly data as of 1Q02, this product provides insight into customer trends by delivering geography-specific product line and vendor market share data. IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker presents market data in an easy-to-use product interface, allowing quick table customization for the automation of business planning activities.

• Regions: Americas and the rest of the world (ROW)
• Functional markets: Data protection and recovery, storage replication, storage management, storage infrastructure, storage device management, archive and HSM, and file system software

• Vendor shares by initial software license and maintenance revenue
• Product line mapping

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

1. Which vendors are gaining or losing market share?
2. Which storage software functional market posted the strongest growth?
3. What product lines are competing in each of the different functional markets?
4. How does the North America market compare with the worldwide market?
5. How quickly are the storage software markets expanding on a quarterly basis?

IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker is essential for tracking competitors in the storage software space. This product is updated quarterly, providing the latest information for ongoing business planning activities. Built on the foundation of IDC's worldwide network of experienced market analysts, this research uses both top-down and bottom-up methodologies to match close operational market knowledge with global company financial modeling. A representative list of these vendors may include BMC Software, CommVault, Computer Associates, EMC, Hitachi Ltd., HP, IBM, Network Appliance, Softek, Sun Microsystems, and Symantec.

Clients receive quarterly delivery and IDC support, including:

• Quarterly data files are delivered 11 weeks after the end of each calendar quarter.
• One day of onsite training at any location in the United States is provided, as well as five hours of inquiry time for asking questions about data usages.

As a privately held company, IDC believes that our customers are our primary constituency. A large percentage of every revenue dollar is reinvested back into our products, including more analysts, more geographic coverage, and extensive primary research.

Our steady growth over the past 10-plus years reflects our commitment to investing in our customers.