Twice a year, IDC's Latin America Semiannual Storage Software Tracker provides vendors, channels, partners, and end users with information on the current storage software market in Latin America, as well as historical data and a five-year forecast. Vendors can measure their performance in a given period and also understand their competition, major trends, and areas for improvement.

This product covers the following segments of the Latin America storage software market:

• Market value and shares by country, license type, vertical industry, horizontal (company size) segment, and distribution channel
• Semiannual data, with historical information from 2006
• Five-year annual forecast
• Countries - Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and the rest of Latin America (Peru optional once a year)
• Functional markets - data protection and recovery, storage replication, archive and HSM, file system, storage management, storage infrastructure, storage device management, other storage software

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

• Market value, share, and forecast in U.S. dollars and local currency
• Vertical markets - manufacturing, finance, government, telco/media, commerce, healthcare, oil/mining, utilities, and education
• Company size segments - enterprise, large, medium sized, small, small office, education, and government
• Type of license - new licenses and upgrade or maintenance
• Specific country highlights

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

1. What can we expect of the storage software market in Latin America in the future? Which countries present the largest opportunities?
2. What are the major forces impacting this market in Latin America?
3. What are the most successful strategies used by storage software vendors in Latin America?
4. How did this market perform during 2008? How will these results impact the future of the market?
5. What vertical and horizontal sectors are driving the growth of this market?

IDC's Latin America Semiannual Storage Software Tracker examines how storage software providers are positioning themselves to compete in the storage software market. This product reviews the strategies, market positioning, and future direction of several providers in the storage software market, including CA, EMC, HDS, HP, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Symantec, among others.

Subscribers to this product receive semiannual delivery and IDC support, including:

• Excel analysis tool
• PowerPoint Presentation
• Interactive briefing
• Schedule (Week #16): Historical and forecast analysis published

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