IBM Storage Nulber 1 in India for IDC

IBM India announced that according to newly released data from IDC the company has emerged number one in revenue for fourth quarter and full year 2010 in the India external disk storage systems.

According to the IDC report (Source: IDC’s Asia/Pacific Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, Q4 2010, March 2011), IBM maintained its 2010 leadership with a 26.2% market share, in revenue terms, and over 4% points lead over its nearest competitor. In addition, in Q4 2010 IBM maintained leadership with a 29% market share and a 7% point lead over its nearest competitor, in revenue terms. The IDC report states the overall External Disk storage market in India declined 1.5% in CY 2010.

The launch of a series of IBM systems in 2010, including the IBM StorwizeV7000 and the IBM System Storage DS8000, helped to strengthen the company’s position in the market. The StorwizeV7000 is designed to improve storage efficiency and costs while providing clients ease of use and performance in a midrange package. Meanwhile, the IBM System Storage DS8000 offers performance, capacity; secure storage systems that are designed to deliver high levels of performance, flexibility, scalability, resiliency and total overall value for the most demanding, heterogeneous storage environments. These launches mark storage innovations that IBM has delivered through R&D in just a year, joining IBM’s Scale-out Network Attached Storage (SONAS), IBM Information Archive, the IBM Long Term File System (LTFS) and IBM Easy Tier.