Business Continuity Priorities of Storage Decision Makers: IDC's Annual European Storage Survey, 2008

Content

• IDC Opinion
• In This Study
  • Methodology
    • The Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity Questions
      • Definitions:
• Situation Overview
  • Data Protection and Budgets
  • Figure: Which Three of the Following Applications Will Your Future Storage Spending Support?
  • Figure: Which Three of the Following Are Your Company's Top Priorities Relating to Storage for the Next 12 Months?
  • Downtime Planned and Unplanned
  • Figure: Please Tell Us the Amount of Unplanned Storage Downtime Your Company Has Experienced Over the Past 12 Months
  • Figure: Please Tell us What Proportion of Your Annual Storage Downtime or Outages Can be Attributed to the Following
  • Figure: Please Select One of the Following That Best Describes the Impact of This Unplanned Storage Downtime on Your Company (By Country)
  • Data Protection
  • Figure: Please Select One of the Following That Best Describes the Impact of This Unplanned Storage Downtime to Your Company (By Company Size)
  • Figure: Please Select Any of the Following That Best Describes Your Primary Business Continuance Storage Protection for Business Critical Applications
  • Figure: Please Select Any of the Following that Best Describes Your Primary Business Continuance Storage Protection for Business Critical Applications (By Country)
  • Figure: Please Rate Your Confidence in the Ability to Reestablish the Data for Your Business Critical Applications (By Country)
  • Figure: Please Rate Your Confidence in the Ability to Reestablish the Data for Your Business Critical Applications (By Company Size)
  • Figure: Please Indicate How Often You Test Your Ability to Recover Data For Your Mission-Critical Applications (By Country)
  • Figure: Please Indicate How Often You Test Your Ability to Recover Data For Your Mission-Critical Applications (by Company Size)
  • Virtualized Servers
  • Figure: Which Two of the Following Are the Most Important Factors Shaping Your Decision About Which Storage Solution to Use in Support of Your Virtualized Servers? (By Country)
  • Figure: Which Two of the Following Are the Most Important Factors Shaping Your Decision About Which Storage Solution to Use in Support of Your Virtualized Servers? (by Company Size)
  • Figure: Which of the Following Best Describes How You Back Up the Data Associated With Your Virtual Servers? (By Country)
  • Figure: Which of the Following Best Describes How You Back Up Data Associated With Your Virtual Servers? (By Company Size)
  • Figure: We Would Like to Explore How Satisfied You Are With the Storage Environment That is Currently Supporting Your Virtualized Servers
  • Figure: Which of the Following Describes Your Company's Use of Such Storage Virtualization Solutions? (By Country)
  • Figure: Which of the Following Describes Your Company's Use of Such Storage Virtualization Solutions? (By Company Size)
  • Figure: Which of the Following Describes Your Company's Use of Such Storage Virtualization Solutions? (By Company Size)
• Future Outlook
• Essential Guidance
  • Appendix - Survey Questions
    • General information
    • IT and Storage Spending
    • Storage and Server Environments
    • Data Protection and Business Continuity
    • Green IT/Storage
    • Cloud Computing/Storage as a Service
    • Table: How Important/Relevant do you Believe Cloud Computing is Within Your Organization's IT Strategy Over the Following Time Periods?
    • Storage Services
    • Table: What Are Your Plans for Using the Following Storage Services?
    • Table: What is Your Preferred Storage Services Solution?
    • Table: When a 3rd Party is Involved, What is Your Preference in Terms of Delivery Method?
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  • Related Research
  • Synopsis