Personal Storage Market Outlook - What Are the Key Drivers for Adoption of External Hard Disk Drive

Wolfgang Schlichting, Research Director, IDC

The Personal Storage market is growing faster than the Enterprise Storage market. What are the key drivers for adoption in the home and small businesses? What roles can NAS play in this market?  

As a result of participating in this session, attendees will be able to:  

• Identify market opportunities for external HDD devices in the home and small business environment and what this means for enterprise storage
  
• Examine the important features, market opportunities and successful positioning of personal NAS devices
  
• Analyze key trends for products and services that combine local personal storage and online storage for consumers and small business users