Infotech Lead India: EMC is leading the external disk storage systems market with 30 percent share in the third quarter of 2012.
The second largest player NetApp has 11.9 percent market share.
IBM has lost its second sport and is now in third position with 11.7 percent share.
Hitcahi and HP have 9.7 percent share.
According to IDC, worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted year-over-year growth of 3.3 percent, totaling just over $5.9 billion in Q3.
For the quarter, the total disk storage systems market posted just under $7.9 billion in revenues, representing 3.7 percent growth from the prior year’s third quarter. Total disk storage systems capacity shipped reach 7,104 petabytes, growing 24.4 percent year over year.
Liz Conner, senior research analyst, Storage Systems, IDC: “End users continue to invest in storage infrastructures despite persistent concerns surrounding global and regional economies. Helping to drive the worldwide market in the third quarter was the double-digit growth in multi-protocol storage architecture and strong demand for upper mid-range and high-end storage.”
The total open networked disk storage market (NAS Combined with Open / iSCSI SAN) grew 4.7 percent year over year in the third quarter to just over $5.1 billion in revenues. EMC continues to maintain its leadership in the total open networked storage market with 33.5 percent revenue share, followed by NetApp with a 13.7 percent revenue share.
In the Open SAN market, which grew 4.4 percent year over year, EMC was the leading vendor with 29.8 percent revenue share, followed by IBM in second with 14.0 percent market share and Hitachi and HP tied for third with 12.2 percent and 11.8 percent shares, respectively.
The NAS market increased 5.7 percent year over year, led by EMC with 43.6 percent revenue share and followed by NetApp with 29.4 percent share. The iSCSI SAN market continues to show good growth, posting 6.9 percent revenue growth compared to the prior year’s quarter. Dell led the market with 28.3 percent revenue share, followed by EMC in second with 19.8 percent market share. NetApp was in third with 13.3 percent market share.
Top 5 Vendors, Worldwide External Disk Storage Systems Factory Revenue, Third Quarter of 2012
(Revenues are in Millions)
Vendor
3Q12
Revenue
3Q12 Market
Share
3Q11
Revenue
3Q11 Market
Share
3Q12/3Q11
Revenue
Growth
1. EMC
$1,783
30.0 percent
$1,641
28.5 percent
8.7 percent
2. NetApp
$706
11.9 percent
$700
12.2 percent
0.9 percent
2. IBM
$698
11.7 percent
$735
12.8 percent
-5.0 percent
4. Hitachi
$575
9.7 percent
$505
8.8 percent
13.8 percent
4. HP
$575
9.7 percent
$646
11.2 percent
-11.0 percent
Others
$1,608
27.0 percent
$1,526
26.5 percent
5.4 percent
All Vendors
$5,946
100.0 percent
$5,753
100.0 percent
3.3 percent
Source: IDC Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker, December 6, 2012
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