According to IDC's latest study “Infrastructure Software - Making the Right Decisions” (Doc# AP322312P), the adoption of infrastructure management (IM) software in the four surveyed countries – Australia, the PRC, India and Korea remained healthy across the 1,000 respondents surveyed. Storage software has topped the list of IM software that users have responded as having adopted. The percentage of end-users dropped in line with more advanced areas of storage software, such as storage management software. However, this varied across countries with the PRC citing storage management more often than other countries.
IDC expects the PRC and India to continue to take the lead as far as investments in IM software are concerned. End users have also indicated that purchases would be less on a standalone basis. “Software that is part of an integrated solution package consisting of hardware software and services components, is the dominating purchasing strategy for businesses across the four key countries in IDC’s survey. Vendors need to bear this in mind when approaching the market, either through leveraging their broader portfolio or technology partners.” says Ullrich Loeffler, Market Analyst of Information Management Solutions at IDC Australia/New Zealand.
The survey also identified the top 3 concerns and considerations companies had during their investment process on IM software. The study showed that Australian end users were most concerned with poor support services while unreliability was the highest concern in Korea. For India and the PRC, most of the respondents felt that software compatibility and its integration with existing systems was their key concern.
The respondents were also asked about their investment intentions. Based on the survey results, IDC expects India to remain the leading investors in IM software, followed by the PRC, as these economies continue to grow and consume technology rapidly in the region. While back up and archive software continues to top the list of investment intentions for IM software, respondents in the PRC indicated that storage resource management was at the top of their list.
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