IDC's Europe, Middle East and Africa Quarterly Storage Mechanisms Tracker®: Disk service analyzes and forecasts demand for hard disk drives (HDDs) in EMEA. Annual and quarterly forecasts for HDDs are segmented by system platform (mobile, desktop, and enterprise-class drives). Quarterly total available market (TAM) analysis is by capacity, channel, and country. Thanks to its detailed tracking database, this research also helps storage resellers understand noteworthy trends affecting product requirements and demand. IDC focuses on delivering a combination of timely tactical market information and long-term strategic analysis to give customers a balanced view of the market.

Technology Coverage and Data Segmentation

This tracker provides total market size and vendor shares for the following technology areas and segmentations. Measurement for this tracker is in unit shipments and capacity (exabytes).

Technologies and subtechnologies:

• HDDs for desktop PC-class applications
• HDDs for consumer applications
• HDDs for enterprise-class applications
• HDDs for mobile PC-class applications

Segmentations:

• Total available market by country and channel
• Unit trends by capacity point and channel

Geographic Scope

• Central and Eastern Europe : Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Serbia and Montenegro, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rest of CEE
• Middle East and Africa: Egypt, Israel, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Algeria, Botswana, Ivory Coast, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Tunisia, Tanzania, Uganda, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Rest of Middle East, Rest of Africa
• Western Europe: France, Germany, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Luxembourg,Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Portugal, Cyprus, Greece

Delivery Schedule and Deliverables

This tracker is delivered on a quarterly basis through pivot tables via Web-based deliverables. The delivery schedule for this tracker is as follows:

• Historical data: week 4 after period closes
• Forecast data: week 4 after period closes