IBM Says to Lead ASEAN External Disk Storage Market

IBM Corp. announced that the company retained its leadership position in terms of overall server revenue market share in the Philippines, with a 42.5%, a 18.3 points lead over its next closest competitor in Q4 2011.

IBM was also the number one ranked vendor
in terms of revenue market share in the Philippines
in Q4 2011 for:

• x86 server with a 31.9% revenue share (a satisfactory 2.9 points lead over the next closest competitor)
• High-end Enterprise ($250k+ servers) segment with a 100% revenue share
• The combined total of RISC and EPIC server segment IBM captured 70.2% revenue share (a stellar 51.7 points higher than the next closest competitor)
• Non-x86 Unix server revenue share at 64.7% (a strong 42.7 points higher than the next closest competitor)
• x86 Blades with a 40.9% revenue share, significant as IBM managed to reclaim this segment back

"IBM’s success in the Philippines and the rest of ASEAN is attributed to the company’s continued investments on systems and technologies that matter to our customers leading to the successful roll-out of the Smarter Computing concept," said Ireen Catane, country executive for Systems & Technology Group, IBM Philippines. "As a growth market, the Philippines is in a good position to reap the benefits of a Smarter Computing architecture, wherein local clients can gain actionable insights from data, increase IT capacity and deliver new services faster to create profitable business opportunities."

IBM introduced its Smarter Computing approach to information technology last year as a way for organizations to realize efficiencies, improved reliability, and better performance  at lower costs. The strategy centers around three fundamental aspects: leveraging analytics to exploit vast amounts of data for business goals; utilizing optimized systems that are designed for specific tasks; and managing as much of the IT as possible with cloud-computing technologies.

Leadership in ASEAN server and Storage market
IBM also announced a sustained leadership momentum within the server market in ASEAN, wresting control of the leading position with a 40% market share interms of market share revenue, a 9.2 points higher than the next closest competitor.

IBM also grabbed the market leadership for ASEAN in the external disk storage market, capturing 26% of the revenue share market for Q4 2011, an increased 4.5 points more than the next closest competitor.

IBM ASEAN also earned its top spot in Q4 2011:

• High-end enterprise ($250+) server segment, capturing a 70% revenue share (a powerful 45.1 points higher than the next closest competitor
• The RISC/EPIC server market by revenue, with a 53.1% share (25.7 points higher than the next closest competitor
• The Midrange External Disk Storage space with a compelling 25% market share by revenue
• The High End External Disk Storage space with 41.7% market share by revenue
• Non-x86 Unix server revenue share with 55.8% (a significant 31.8 points higher than the next closest competitor)

Said Phong Taylor, VP, Systems & Technology Group, IBM ASEAN, said: "Our leadership position validates the value of our smarter computing initiative, by leveraging IBM’s strengths in the key areas of big data and analytics integration, optimized systems and cloud computing. We are confident that our upcoming sequel to IBM’s Smarter Planet initiative, where a new era of computing, consisting of a series of systems that will have ‘integrated expertise’ built in will further cement our leadership. These new systems will combine IBM’s semiconductor, research and services advances in an integrated system, that will not only reduce the total cost of IT by making it possible for fewer administrators to manage a greater number of physical and virtual servers, but also make it possible for IT organizations to ‘right-size’ their IT investments by utilizing shared cloud resources to process peak application workloads."