Wednesday, 19 April 2006

NetApp Leads NAS and Unified Storage Market: Gartner

Data storage firm Network Appliance Inc. has announced that it leads the NAS and Unified storage market. According to a report from information and technology research company Gartner, NAS and Unified Storage market grew 16.1% in 2004, whereas NetApp grew more quickly than the market, posting annual revenue growth of 22.4%.

NetApp also leads in both the high-end and midrange parts of the market, with 88.9% market share and 70.5% market share by revenue respectively.

"With NetApp unified storage, customers can consolidate, standardize, and centrally manage both SAN and NAS storage to simplify complex IT environments and dramatically reduce total cost of ownership," said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Products and Partners at Network Appliance.

According to Gartner, the company increased its market share from 52.4% in 2004 to 55.2% in 2005.