ENTERPRISE EQUIPMENT NETWORK STORAGE: Consolidate, Automate...

Market Information

According to IDC, the Indian storage (hardware) industry was pegged at $119.6 million by end 2003, a growth of 14 percent over its size of $103.1 million in 2002. In terms of storage volumes, the market stood at 3762.2 TB by the end of 2003, a growth of about 5 percent over 2239.4 TB in 2002.

The size of data is expected to grow at a CAGR of 63 percent year-on-year for the 2002–07 time frame. The storage software market witnessed a growth of 45 percent to end at $17 million in 2003 from $12 million in 2002. On the other hand, the Garner report predicts that the overall storage systems market will grow to $425.8 million in 2005—a CAGR of 26 percent. The report also states that SAN will account for 49 percent and NAS for 32 percent of the storage revenue pie in India by 2005.

Experts panel

Agendra Kumar, country manager, Veritas Software

Alok Kumar, director-IT, Tata Teleservices, Maharashtra

Arun Rao, national manager, storage business, CA

Avijit Basu, marketing manager, network storage solutions, enterprise systems group, HP

Manoj Chugh, president (India and Saarc), EMC

PP Subramanian, country manager, Hitachi Data Systems India

Shailesh Agarwal, country manager, storage solutions, IBM India

Business Continuity: Driving Storage Demand