Continuing with its growth trend worldwide, external disk storage systems factory posted a growth of 10.3 percent in the first quarter, from the year-ago quarter. According to IDC’s Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker, revenue for external disk storage systems in the quarter reached USD 4.2 billion.
In the fourth quarter external disk storage systems had posted revenue growth of 17.9 percent USD 4.7 billion.
For the quarter, the total disk storage systems market grew to USD 5.8 billion, up 6.7 percent from the prior year's first quarter. Total disk storage systems capacity shipped reached 627 petabytes, growing 51.5 percent.
The growth trend is an indicator of the increasing importance that businesses attach to storing their data.
"Customers continue to increase their reliance on business data and seek cost effective ways to store, protect, and manage this critical data," said Brad Nisbet, program manager, IDC Storage Systems. "Despite the server market being down nearly 2% in the first quarter of 2006, the comparable positive growth of external disk systems points to the importance of storage in helping customers improve overall business efficiency."
EMC maintained its lead in the external disk storage systems market with 21.8% revenue share, followed by HP and IBM with 17.9% and 12.0% revenue share, respectively. Dell and Hitachi rounded out the top 5 in a statistical tie with 8.2% and 8.1%, respectively.
Network Disk Storage Systems
The total network disk storage market (NAS Combined with Open and iSCSI SAN) posted 15.4% year-over-year growth in the first quarter to more than .8 billion. EMC continues to maintain its leadership in the total network storage market with 28.7% revenue share, followed by HP and IBM with 19.3% and 10.7% revenue share, respectively. Network Appliance and IBM posted the strongest year-over-year revenue growth for the quarter among the top 5, with 24.4% and 22.6% growth, respectively.
In the NAS market, which grew 14.7% year over year, EMC led with 37.1% revenue share, followed by Network Appliance with 34.4% share. The iSCSI SAN market continues to show strong momentum, posting 37.7% revenue growth compared to the prior year's quarter reaching million. Network Appliance continues to lead the market with 29.7% share, followed by EMC with 24.2 % share.
"The high-end segment (systems priced at ,000 and over) showed the strongest year-over-year growth of nearly 40%," said Natalya Yezhkova, senior research analyst, IDC Storage Systems. "Although data protection, digital content and other emerging data-intensive applications are driving market growth mainly for midrange systems, demand for highly-scalable primary storage also remains strong indicating the ongoing consolidation within corporate data centers."
Top 5 Vendors, Worldwide External Disk Storage Systems Factory Revenue, Q106 (Revenues are in Millions) [Source: IDC]
Total Disk Storage Systems Market
In the total worldwide disk storage systems market, HP lead the market with 22.9% followed by IBM with 17.9% revenue share respectively. EMC maintained the third position with 15.6% revenue share.
Top 5 Vendors, Worldwide Total Disk Storage Systems Factory Revenue, Q106 (Revenues are in Millions) [Source: IDC]
IDC's Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Quarterly Tracker is a quantitative tool for analyzing the global disk storage market on a quarterly basis. |
