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Top 2011 NAS Vendors: EMC in Sales, Netgear in Units

According to Gartner

Pushan Rinnen, an analyst from Gartner, Inc., has published on March 14, 2012 a report: Market Share: Network Attached Storage/Unified Storage, Worldwide, 2011 (46 pages, $9,995). Here is a summary.

2011 WW NAS/unified storage revenues
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2011 WW NAS/unified units shipped
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            (Source: Gartner)

Worldwide vendor revenues for the NAS and unified storage market increased 32.5% in 2011 compared with 2010, reaching $6.8 billion. The estimated pure NAS market grew 21.5% to $4.5 billion.

In this sector, you have hardware configurations from only several hundreds to more than one millions of dollars. That’s why Gartner has segmented the market in three categories: all of them, less than $25,000 – total at $1.2 billion growing 11.7% Y/Y – and than $5,000 – total at $462 million decreasing 5% Y/Y.

EMC is the leader in global revenues, not too far from NetApp. This latter is ≠1 in the second mid-range category and Netgear in low-end third one. EMC is the most growing firm in sales from 2010 to 2011 with 89.9% in front of Netgear with 84.7%. Oracle Sun has a yearly negative growth of 8.0%.

As expected, ranking by units shipped in 2011 is someone different. Netgear occupies the top position with 16.4% market share followed by Qnap (13.8%), Synology (13.4%) and Buffalo Technology (12.9%). EMC is at the fifth place with 11.5%, followed by NetApp and HP.

 2011 WW NAS/unified storage revenues
                       (in $million)

Total market  Revenues  Market
  share
  Y/Y
growth
1/ EMC  2,834.0  41.7%  89.9%
2/ NetApp  2,446.5  36.0%  18.6%
3/ IBM  341.1   5.0%   3.8%
4/ HP  116.0   1.7%  11.8%
5/ Oracle Sun  94.2   1.4%  -8.0%
6/ Netgear  84.7   1.3%  26.0%
>$25,000 units      
1/ NetApp  348.2  27.0%  1.45%
2/ EMC  197.0  15.3%  123.5%
3/ HP  80.9%   6.3%  12.8%
4/ Netgear  84.7   6.6%  26.0%
>$5,000 units      
1/ Netgear  84.7  18.3%  26.0%
2/ Qnap  79.3  17.1%  44.8%
3/ Synology  57.3  12.4%  47.3%
4/ Buffalo  46.2  10.0% -12.5%

2011 WW NAS/unified units shipped

Vendors  Units Market
 share
  Y/Y
growth
1/ Netgear  108,876  16.4%  57.1%
2/ Qnap  97,554  13.8%  20.7%
3/ Synology  94,538  13.4%  78.6%
4/ Buffalo  90,955  12.9%  -7.9%
5/ EMC  81,032  11.5%  20.6%
6/ NetApp  58,687   8.3%  13.8%
7/ HP  12,402   1.8%  14.9%

 (Source: Gartner)

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