IDC's Latin America Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker takes an in-depth look at the market opportunity for storage systems across the region. Countries covered are Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, and the rest of Latin America (RLA). Segments analyzed include disk storage location (Internally or externally), RAID/JBOD, price bands based on average selling value, operating system (Linux, Unix, Windows, NOS, z/OS, i5/OS, others), and installation environment (DAS, SAN, NAS, ESCON SAN, iSCSI). Five-year forecasts and related assumptions are updated on a quarterly base.

• Quarterly data starting from 1Q07 and annualized historical information from 2002
• Segment measurement: Customer revenue, factory revenue, units, and terabytes
• Disk storage systems spending by end-user segment: Small office (1-9 employees), small business (10-99 employees), medium-sized business (100-249 employees), large business (250-499 employees), corporate business (500+ employees), government, and education
• Disk storage systems spending in specific vertical markets: Finance, telecom, commerce, government, education, manufacturing, utilities, oil and gas, and others
• Sales by distribution channel: Direct, Indirect (VAR, System Integrator, Distributor, Others)
• Five-year annual forecast of value and terabytes shipped by interconnect environment (SAN, NAS, and DAS)

• Quarterly vendor performance by customer revenue, factory revenue, units, and terabytes
• Form factors: Direct-attached storage (DAS), storage area network (SAN, iSCSI, and ESCON), and network-attached storage (NAS)
• Main Operating Systems by System Connection Type are included (i5/OS, Linux, Unix, Windows, z/OS, and Other/OS)
• System Disk Configuration: RAID versus JBOD
• System by Disk Type: Fibre Channel, SCSI, ATA, SATA, iSCSI, FICON, and ESCON.
• Price band segmentation
• Sales by distribution channel
• Horizontal and vertical end-user market segmentations

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

1. What is the size of the disk storage systems market in Latin America, and what are the key market drivers?
2. Which vendors are gaining and losing market share in the Latin America disk storage systems market?
3. What is the average price per terabyte of disk storage, and how are changing prices affecting the market?
4. What is the impact of emerging storage technologies on the Latin America disk storage systems market?

Note: Data is for illustrative purposes only.

IDC's Latin America Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker examines how disk storage systems vendors are positioning themselves to compete in the storage hardware market. This product reviews the strategies, market positioning, and future direction of several providers in the storage market, including Dell, EMC, Hitachi, HP, IBM, Network Appliance, Sentry Store, and Sun Microsystems.

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• Excel analysis tool
• Interactive briefing
• Week 10: Historical analysis and forecast analysis published

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