Gartner Says Worldwide External Controller-Based Disk Storage Market Grew 18.8 Percent in Second Quarter of 2008

STAMFORD, Conn., September 4, 2008 — Worldwide external controller-based (ECB) disk storage revenue totaled $4.5 billion in the second quarter of 2008, an 18.8 percent increase over the same period in 2007, according to Gartner, Inc.

EMC maintained the No. 1 spot overall, finishing the quarter at 24.3 percent market share (see Table 1). IBM was in second place with 14.1 percent of the market followed by Hewlett-Packard with 11.8 percent.

Sun Microsystems showed the highest growth year-over-year at 34.7 percent mainly due to a large increase in the company’s Sun StorageTek 2000, 6000 and 9000 series revenue. NetApp had the next highest growth with 22.9 percent. Also recording double digit growth were Dell with 18.3 percent, Hitachi Data Systems at 18.1 percent, EMC at 16.0 percent, and IBM with a growth of 14.9 percent.

On a regional basis, Japan showed the highest growth at 38.7 percent year-over-year followed by Latin America, EMEA, and Asia Pacific at 25.2 percent, 22.3 percent and 16.6 percent, respectively, Growth in North America for the same period was 12.7 percent.

“Although growth in North America was lower than the other regions it was still very respectable at almost 13 percent given the current economic conditions,” said Robin Burke, research vice president for Gartner’s global Storage Quarterly Statistics program.

Table 1
Worldwide External Controller-Based Disk Storage Vendor Revenue Estimates for 2Q08
(Millions of U.S. Dollars)

Company	2Q08 Revenue	2Q08 Market Share (%)	2Q07 Revenue	2Q07 Market Share (%)	2Q07 - 2Q08 Change (%)
EMC*	1,082.9	24.3	933.3	24.8	16.0
IBM	631.7	14.1	549.7	14.6	14.9
Hewlett-Packard	528.6	11.8	511.2	13.6	3.4
Dell Inc.	401.5	9.0	339.5	9.0	18.3
Hitachi Data Systems**	379.6	8.5	321.4	8.6	18.1
NetApp	355.3	8.0	289.0	7.8	22.9
Sun Microsystems	293.8	6.6	218.1	5.8	34.7
Fujitsu/Fujitsu Siemens	83.7	1.9	86.1	2.3	-2.8
Other Vendors	704.5	15.8	508.5	13.5	38.5
Total	4,461.6	100.0	3,756.8	100.0	18.8

Note* EMC revenue excludes OEM revenue from Dell and Fujitsu Siemens.
Note ** Hitachi/HDS revenue excludes OEM revenue from HP and Sun Microsystems.
Source: Gartner (September 2008)

Gartner external controller-based disk storage reports reflect hardware only revenue, as well as hardware revenue associated with financial leases and managed services. Optional storage software revenue and storage area network infrastructure components are excluded.

Additional information on the ECB disk storage market is available in the Gartner Dataquest report “Market Share: Disk Array Storage, All Regions, All Countries, 1Q05-2Q08." The report includes vendor market share by data access method, price band, channel and operating system segmentation. The report is available on Gartner’s Web site.

 

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