EMC Maintains Lead in External Disk Storage Systems Market: IDC

According to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted year-over-year growth of 12.2 percent totaling just over $5.6 billion, in the second quarter of 2011 (2Q11). EMC maintained its lead followed by IBM and NetApp.

"EMC maintained its lead in the external disk storage systems market with 28.7% revenue share in the second quarter, followed by IBM and NetApp tied for second with 13.7% and 12.8% market share respectively. HP ended the quarter in fourth position, with 11.0%. Hitachi and Dell finished in a tie* for fifth with 8.1% and 7.9% market share respectively.

"The total open networked disk storage market (NAS Combined with Open / iSCSI SAN) grew 15.0% year over year in the second quarter to $4.8 billion in revenues. EMC continues to maintain its leadership in the total open networked storage market with 31.9% revenue share, followed by NetApp with a 15.0% revenue share.

"In the Open SAN market, which grew 14.3% year over year, EMC was the leading vendor with 25.7% revenue share, followed by IBM in second and HP in third with 16.4% and 13.4% share, respectively."

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