IDC's Middle East and Africa Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker provides timely market information on the disk storage systems market in the Middle East and Africa (MEA). Covering 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:

• Egypt
• Israel
• Saudi Arabia
• South Africa
• Turkey
• United Arab Emirates
• Rest of Africa
• Rest of Middle East
• Optional add-ons for Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and Bahrain
• Internal and external disk storage systems
• Direct versus networked storage
• Installation and location type

Throughout the year, this service addresses the following:

• Disk storage system shipments by capacity
• Value of shipments
• Breakdown by server OS
• RAID versus JBOD
• Network connectivity
• 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 systems shipments?
2. What is the relative size of markets by country in the MEA region?
3. Which suppliers are gaining market share?
4. How quickly are storage prices per MB falling?
5. What trends are evident for storage systems by server platform?
6. What products are being introduced by your competitors and what is their market impact?
7. What platforms, applications, and technologies offer the greatest market opportunity today and in the future?

IDC's Middle East and Africa Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker service examines how the major vendors are faring in the market. It provides essential 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 service 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). .

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