IDC's Europe, Middle East and Africa Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker® provides timely market information on the disk storage systems market in Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), and the Middle East and Africa. Markets can be measured in terms of new storage capacity shipped, factory value, and end-user value of shipments. The tracker provides insight into the impact of market changes, key trends, and the results of vendors' new product, marketing, and channel activities. It delivers the information in a format that is flexible and easy to use.

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, new capacity shipments, end-user revenue, and factory revenue.

Technologies and subtechnologies:

• Attachment by protocol (direct attached, networked attached storage [file], storage area network protocols, Fibre Channel, Fibre Channel over Ethernet, iSCSI, FICON/ESCON, Infiniband, switched SAS)
• Internal versus external storage
• Host operating systems
• RAID versus JBOD

Segmentation:

• Country
• Vendor
• Disk storage systems family and model
• Price bands
• Annual, quarterly views going back at least five years
• Channel (direct/indirect) or segment (small, medium, large enterprises, government, education), cannot be cross-filtered

Dimensions:

• Factory revenue in dollars and euros
• Customer spending in dollars and euros
• Units
• New capacity shipped
• System ASPs
• System level $/GB and GB/unit calculations

Geographic Scope

Standard subscription scope:

• Central and Eastern Europe: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, Rest of CEE
• Middle East and Africa:Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Israel, Rest of Middle East, Rest of Africa
• Western Europe:United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland

Expanded country coverage:

• Africa: Tunisia, Algeria, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria
• CEE: Estonia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Serbia, Latvia,
• MEA: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar

Delivery Schedule and Deliverables

This tracker is delivered on a quarterly basis through tools such as pivot tables and Web-based query. The delivery schedule for this tracker is as follows:

• Historical data: approximately week 9–10 after period closes
• Segment/channel data: 1 week after historical data ships
• Forecast data: 2 weeks after historical data ships