New Business Opportunities Brought by Network Disk Market: the Realities of SMB Data Management

This IDC Insight (which is a translation of the Japanese report IDC #J8120112) focuses on the unit shipments and capacity shipments of network disk systems and describes IDC’s observations on the impact the emergence of this market has on the existing Japan storage market. Demand for network disk systems is growing rapidly among small and medium system users in Japan. In 1H07, unit shipments for network disk was 7.3 times more than that of the Japan NAS market in IDC's studies and the capacity shipments was also 2.6 times more.