Worldwide Disk Storage System Market Will Continue to Thrive with Relentless Growth of Terabyte Shipments Through 2010

IDC:The disk storage system market continues to thrive, influenced by expanding markets, desires to improve efficiencies, and moves to enhance the economics of data storage. In 2005, worldwide disk storage system revenue increased 10.5% over 2004 and is expected to continue to expand as terabyte shipments grow more than 50% annually through 2010.

The constant demands for storing more data is causing IT managers to look for ways to bring more efficiency to the data center with limited budgets. These demands will increase in intensity and diversity over the next few years. OEMs must understand the storage infrastructure development stages and emerging data intensive applications in order to meet these needs and capitalize on a thriving storage market.

Among key market dynamics to expect over the next few years are the following:

• Worldwide disk storage system revenue will reach $29.8 billion in 2010.Roughly two-thirds of all storage terabytes shipped in 2010 will be based on capacity-oriented disk drives.

• iSCSI SAN revenue will top $5.1 billion by 2010.

Worldwide Disk Storage Systems 2005-2010 Market Forecast and Analysis: Expansion, Efficiency, and Economics Driving Growth Publ 20060605