Report Highlights
In 2008, although affected by critical economic situation, China's external disk storage market still achieves remarkable success and keeps rapid growth. The major reasons are that main industrial informatization construction, such as telecom, finance, government, energy; storage management technical rapid application, such as virtualization, data de-duplication; SMEs' purchases for storage increase. In 2008, storage market's demands are still huge. However, on the basis of their original fields, major manufacturers hope to explore new growth points, transfer their competition focus, which include new technical application, new products' promotion, new industry development, new software and services' support. Because of flexibly grasp clients' demands and the rapid development of storage, new-sharp manufacturers have some achievements.
As for product structure, because storage plays important role in enterprises' business, enterprises put high requirements for storage's availability. SAN storage has become the mainstream of growth, especially IP SAN's rapid rise. NAS keeps relatively stable growth; DAS's growth rate slows down.
As for competition strategy, SMEs' demands for storage increases, iSCSI's application will be popular, which benefit to China's domestic manufacturers to improve positions, brand popularity.
In the face of changes and challenges in competition and the market, we release 2008-2009 Annual Report on China's External Disk Storage System Market, to help vendors, investors and industry insiders grasp more accurately laws governing the market's development and in combing the development track of application value:
? Deep and accurate market research data: On the basis of in-depth research of leading vendors' main product models, the report depicts changes in the market from the angle of product structure, price segments, regions and provinces, cities, vertical and parallel segments, and distribution channels.
? All-round and profound market competition analysis: In addition to summing up enterprises' performance in the dimension of market segments, competition strategy and SWOT analysis, we leverage its profound understanding of the IT market to establish a CPM matrix system consisting of 6 items and 31 sub-items, to review the makings of success in the marketplace. Vendors are divided into four quadrants including leaders and challengers.
? Scientific and complete forecasts: Through regression modeling and expert verification in major market segments, it conducts correlation analysis with related industry links, to present valuable trend analysis and quantitative forecast result.
