20/06-05   -   Pressmeddelande

Nordic Companies are Moving Fast Towards New Storage Technologies, Says IDC

The Nordic market for storage solutions is quite mature. The market for disk, tape, and storage software only grew by 5% to reach a total value of €744 million in 2004. While this growth is moderate, a number of new technologies grew significantly faster, indicating a strong change in the way storage is deployed by Nordic companies.

Some of the areas showing significant growth in 2004 were storage area networks (SAN), network attached storage (NAS), iSCSI storage, tape automation, and storage resource management software. Growth in these areas was generally in the region of 10% to 20% last year.

Nordic Storage Products
Year
2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Value (€M)
709 744 778 802 819 836 853
Source: IDC, 2005

IDC has published a series of studies on market trends in the storage product markets in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland. They provide an analysis of the market in 2004 and an overview of the market strategies of the key vendors that compete in the storage product market for disk systems, tape systems, and storage software. As well as providing forecasts for the storage markets through 2009, the studies discuss key issues, market accelerators, and market inhibitors.

"The growth of information that needs to be stored and managed is an ongoing challenge for most organizations. Disk storage systems are the foundation of organizations´ critical data. Consequently, investment in a network storage infrastructure supported by suitable storage software and storage and data management practices is becoming mandatory, and an essential ingredient in a cost-effective and flexible storage solution," said Per Andersen, managing director, IDC Nordic.

As the external and internal requirements for companies change, this is reflected in the technologies deployed in the storage area. The combination of new legislation for financial accountability and information integrity with the need to cost-optimize storage infrastructure leads to fast adoption of newer technologies that can deliver low-cost and highly reliable storage solutions.

IDC’s Nordic Storage Systems 2004 Vendor Shares and 2005–2009 Forecast studies are available from www.idc.com or your local IDC office.
Denmark Storage Products 2004 Vendor Shares and 2005–2009 Forecast (Doc DK510517M) Sweden Storage Products 2004 Vendor Shares and 2005–2009 Forecast (Doc SE510516M) Norway Storage Products 2004 Vendor Shares and 2005–2009 Forecast (Doc NO510519M) Finland Storage Products 2004 Vendor Shares and 2005–2009 Forecast (Doc FI510520M)

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For more information, contact:
Per Andersen
+45 39 16 22 22
pandersen@idc.com