IDC's Central and Eastern European Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker provides timely market information on the disk storage systems market in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in terms of new storage capacity shipped, factory value, and end-user value of shipments. The tracker provides insight into the impact of market changes, key trends, and the results of vendors' new product, marketing, and channel activities. It delivers the information in a format that is flexible and easy to use.

This service covers the following markets and segments:

• Bulgaria
• Croatia
• Czech Republic
• Hungary
• Poland
• Romania
• Russia
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Ukraine
• Optional add-ons: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
• Rest of CEE
• Internal and external disk storage systems
• Direct versus networked storage
• Installation and location type

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

• Disk storage system shipments by capacity
• Value of shipments
• Breakdown by server OS
• RAID versus JBOD
• Network connectivity (SAN, DAS, NAS)
• Trends in shipments of external and internal storage

This service addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

1. What are the recent trends in disk storage system shipments?
2. What is the relative size of markets by country in CEE?
3. Which suppliers are gaining market share by country in CEE?
4. What trends are evident for storage systems by server platform?
5. How quickly are storage prices per GB falling?
6. Which products are being introduced by competitors and what is their market impact?
7. Which platforms, applications, and technologies offer the greatest market opportunity today and in the future?

IDC's Central and Eastern European Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker service examines how the major vendors are faring in the market. It provides valuable data on vendor performance and qualitative summaries of vendor strategies, market positioning, and outlook. Companies tracked include

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

Throughout the year, this product will offer insight into the latest trends impacting the market.

IDC's extensive data can be viewed by country, year, quarter, vendor, product line, installation type, RAID JBOD name, operating system, price band, and location. Data can be viewed by units, value, and terabytes.

Results are presented to clients in a user-friendly Excel workbook format. Each worksheet has tools to help you locate and print the data you need.

Presentation by IDC analyst to in-house audience (optional).

(Illustrative data only)

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.