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Donna Taylor
Research Director, European Storage

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IBM STG European Analyst Day, March 2013
Giorgio Nebuloni, Andreas Olah, Donna Taylor
Apr 2013 - Doc # GE65V      Insight
This IDC Insight reports on the latest products and strategy news regarding IBM System and Technology Group in Europe. The report is based on discussions between IDC and IBM representatives at IBM's STG Analyst Day held in Böblingen on M ...
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Dell Technology Camp: Covering All the Bases
Donna Taylor, Chris Barnard, Mette Ahorlu, Andreas Olah, Beatriz Valle
Feb 2013 - Doc # RS52V      Event Flash
On January 31 Dell hosted its annual Dell Technology Camp, this time in Amsterdam. Attended by more than 100 industry analysts and journalists, Dell showcased several initiatives in which it participates, including cloud, converged infra ...
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IDC Takeaways From Oracle Cloudworld Dubai
Bo Lykkegaard, Ranjit Rajan, David Bradshaw, Giorgio Nebuloni, Donna Taylor
Feb 2013 - Doc # LC51V      Insight
Oracle recently hosted the first event in the Oracle CloudWorld worldwide roadshow series in Dubai. The roadshow is scheduled to visit ten countries over the next few months. At the event and its associated analyst summit, Oracle preside ...
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EMEA Storage 2013 Top 10 Predictions
Donna Taylor, Daniel Bizo, Marina Kostova, Jimena Sisa, Carla Arend
Feb 2013 - Doc # RS01V      Top 10 Predictions
This Top Ten Predictions document presents IDC's top predictions for the EMEA storage market in 2013.: "Adoption rates of storage technologies, infrastructures, and delivery models will vary by region and by country, mostly due to d ...
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Oracle EMEA Analyst Summit 2013 — Infrastructure Angle
Giorgio Nebuloni, Thomas Meyer, Donna Taylor
Jan 2013 - Doc # GE57V      Event Flash
This IDC Event Flash reports on the Oracle EMEA Analyst Summit held in Dubai on January 15–16, 2013, with a specific focus on the infrastructure angle, including server, storage and integrated strategy, as well as infrastructure decision ...
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Big Data - Opportunities That Exist NOW for ICT Vendors
Alys Woodward, Carla Arend, Donna Taylor, Daniel Bizo
Dec 2012 - Doc # IM52U      Event Proceeding
The growth of data has become so vast that many organizations are now struggling to capture, store, search, analyze, and generate meaningful intelligence from what should be their greatest asset. The resulting Big Data challenge is gener ...
Right Here, Right Now at European VMworld 2012
Carla Arend, Spencer Izard, Kevin Bailey, Mette Ahorlu, Chris Barnard, Donna Taylor, Daniel Bizo
Nov 2012 - Doc # IM51U      Insight
This IDC Insight reports on key announcements made at the analyst event on October 10–12, 2012, in Barcelona at the VMworld Europe 2012 conference, and discusses related strategy developments for VMware and its partners.

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Huawei European Analyst Summit, 2012 — Enterprise Outlook
Giorgio Nebuloni, Donna Taylor, Chris Barnard, Dom Webb
Nov 2012 - Doc # GE76U      Event Flash
This IDC Event Flash reports on the Enterprise track of the European Industry Analyst Summit held by Huawei on October 15, 2012, in Amsterdam. During the summit, the company disclosed information on its financial performance and its effo ...
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How Do Customers See Converged Systems?
Daniel Bizo, Jimena Sisa, Donna Taylor
Oct 2012 - Doc # RS06U      Survey
This year's Western European End-User Storage Survey explores the purchasing intentions and priorities of 505 IT professionals and the challenges they face. In this report, we explore their perceptions of converged systems and the ...
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Hot Vendors Profile: Actifio Redefines Secondary Storage
Daniel Bizo, Donna Taylor
Aug 2012 - Doc # RS55U      Vendor Profile
This IDC Vendor Profile details the technologies, products, and go-to-market strategy of Actifio, a U.S.-based startup that addresses the management of the copies of production data including backup and recovery, disaster protection, tes ...
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IBM to Acquire Texas Memory Systems by Year-End
Donna Taylor
Aug 2012 - Doc # lcDE23657412      IDC Link
IBM to Acquire Texas Memory Systems by YearendAs part of its Smarter Computing approach, IBM announced that it will acquire Texas Memory Systems by yearend. TMS, based in Houston, Texas, designs and sells high-performance solid state storag ...
NetApp Celebrates 20 Years
Donna Taylor, Daniel Bizo
Aug 2012 - Doc # RS56U      Event Flash
NetApp held its Industry Analyst Summit in San Jose, California, on June 20, in which 90 industry analysts from around the world had the opportunity to hear about NetApp's plans for the future and to ask questions of the executives in ma ...
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Storage Challenges and Preferences for Western European Customers
Daniel Bizo, Jimena Sisa, Donna Taylor
Aug 2012 - Doc # RS05U      Survey
This year's Western European End-User Storage Survey explores the purchasing intentions and priorities of 505 IT professionals, as well as the challenges they face. We explore how their budgets are changing in 2012 compared with last yea ...
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Amazon Extends Use of SSDs for Cloud Services
Donna Taylor
Jul 2012 - Doc # lcDE23626312      IDC Link
The advancements in flash technology/SSDs come at a time when data growth is exploding and IOPS performance is pushed to the limit. This is true not only for mission-critical applications, but for the management and movement of run-of-the-m ...
Dell Storage Forum: Insights and Takeaways
Donna Taylor
Jul 2012 - Doc # RS57U      Event Flash
On June 11–13, Dell held its second annual Dell Storage Forum in Boston, Massachusetts, with almost 1,200 in attendance. A major theme for Dell has been that of promoting the concept of Fluid Data. While this term can mean many things to ...
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Benefits and Challenges of SSD Technology in a World Dominated by Disks
Donna Taylor, Daniel Bizo
Jul 2012 - Doc # RS04U      Technology Assessment
This IDC study explores some of the key considerations to take into account when deciding between the deployment of solid state drives (SSDs) and hard disk drives (HDDs). It outlines the advantages of SSDs and their drawbacks when compar ...
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EMC World 2012: Transforming the Industry
Donna Taylor
Jul 2012 - Doc # RS54U      Event Flash
EMC held its annual EMC World event in Las Vegas, Nevada, on May 21–23. The opening day keynotes highlighted this year's theme — to "Transform IT. Transform Business. Transform Yourself." EMC made no fewer than 42 announcements on new an ...
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Western European Dedicated Private Cloud, 2011–2016: Hardware, Software, Networking, and Services
Mette Ahorlu, Carla Arend, Kevin Bailey, James Eibisch, Emir Halilovic, Spencer Izard, Nathaniel Martinez, Donna Taylor, Joe Wilson
Jul 2012 - Doc # SR03U      Special Study
The European market for IT for private cloud is already a significant market worth $2.8 billion in 2011, and IDC forecasts it will grow to $7.9 billion in 2016, at a CAGR of 23.2%. This includes different growth patterns for servers, sto ...
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IBM Edge 2012: Smarter Storage for Smarter Computing
Donna Taylor
Jun 2012 - Doc # lcDE23526512      IDC Link
IBM hosted its IBM Executive Edge 2012 event in Orlando this week with over 2,000 attendees from around the world. As a storage-centric event, IBM used Edge 2012 to showcase its approach to the design and deployment of storage, called Smart ...
HP ESSN EMEA and the Channel in 2012
Nathaniel Martinez, Donna Taylor, Emir Halilovic
Jun 2012 - Doc # GE63U      Insight
This IDC Insight discusses the role of the channel in EMEA for HP's ESSN current product portfolio.

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Western Europe Disk Storage Systems 2012–2016 Forecast and Analysis
Daniel Bizo, Donna Taylor, Jimena Sisa
Jun 2012 - Doc # RS03U      Market Analysis
This IDC study provides a high-level forecast of the Western European enterprise disk storage systems market for 2012–2016 as well as a discussion of forecast assumptions and major market trends. IDC expects that end-user spending on ent ...
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Huawei Continues to Expand its Technology Reach into New Areas
Donna Taylor, Nathaniel Martinez, Romain Fouchereau
May 2012 - Doc # RS53U      Event Flash
This IDC Event Flash covers information that was shared with industry analysts at Huawei's Global Analyst Summit in Shenzhen, China, on April 25–27. During the event, Huawei touted its three-pronged approach in the carrier network, enter ...
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Hot Vendor Profile: balesio, a New Breed of Data Reduction Technology
Daniel Bizo, Donna Taylor
May 2012 - Doc # RS52U      Vendor Profile
This IDC Vendor Profile details the technologies, products, and go-to-market strategy of balesio, a Swiss start-up that is addressing unstructured data growth with a novel solution. Leveraging IDC's knowledge of the competitive landscape ...
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IDC MarketScape: Western European Midmarket Storage Systems 2012 Vendor Analysis
Donna Taylor, Daniel Bizo, Carla Arend, Pavel Roland
Apr 2012 - Doc # RS02U      Competitive Analysis
The midmarket disk storage systems market is highly competitive. It's not only dominated by the large tier 1 storage vendors, but by smaller and lesser-known tier 2 storage vendors. Each plays a role and offers relevant and timely featur ...
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EMEA Storage 2012 Top 10 Predictions
Donna Taylor, Daniel Bizo, Carla Arend, Pavel Roland
Feb 2012 - Doc # RS01U      Top 10 Predictions
This Top Ten Predictions document presents IDC's top predictions for the EMEA Storage market in 2012. New storage technologies, alongside existing offerings, will see mixed uptake in EMEA.: "Storage virtualization, SSDs, unified sto ...
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European Cloud 2012 Top 10 Predictions
Mette Ahorlu, Carla Arend, David Bradshaw, James Eibisch, Chris Ingle, Nathaniel Martinez, Nicholas McQuire, Donna Taylor, Alys Woodward
Feb 2012 - Doc # QL52U      Event Proceeding
This presentation was made in a Web conference to IDC's customers on February 7, 2012.: In the presentation, IDC highlights 10 key predictions and trends for cloud in Europe in 2012, including public cloud, private cloud, "c-gov" (g ...
FireHost Offers Highly Secure Cloud Hosting in Europe
Mette Ahorlu, Donna Taylor
Jan 2012 - Doc # lcUK23291512      IDC Link
FireHost announced on January 25 that it has set up European operations out of datacenters in the U.K. and the Netherlands. FireHost has previously had global operations from datacenters in the U.S., but as a consequence of its high securit ...
Impressions from Fujitsu Forum in Munich: Strong Portfolio but Messaging Could Be Sharper
Mette Ahorlu, Jiri Helebrand, Thomas Meyer, Giorgio Nebuloni, David Reinsel, Donna Taylor, Vernon Turner, Matt Healey
Dec 2011 - Doc # QL76T      Insight
In this Insight, we cover impressions from Fujitsu Forum in Munich November 8–9, 2011. We cover the strategic development of the company as well as the separate product areas and geographical focus. Seven people from various groups and g ...
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