Expected vendor revenue doesn’t translate directly into spending, but it is highly correlated with it. A handful of storage system vendors (EMC, HP, NetApps, and Dell) report their storage businesses fairly unambiguously – which gives some guidance as to purchasing budget expectations going forward. Collectively, the storage businesses (storage hardware, software, and services) of these four vendors grew +10% worldwide in 2008, will shrink -10% in 2009, and grow 1.7% in 2010.
This is against an expected overall market revenue growth of 3.6% for all IT products and services worldwide in 2010.
I’d be curious about the outlook from Storage budget owners and what sorts of projects will be getting attention in 2010.
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