WW External Disk Systems Decline Y/Y in 1Q13 – IDC

Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted a
year-over-year decline of -0.9%, totaling just over $5.9 billion, in the
first quarter of 2013 (1Q13), according to the International Data Corporation‘s Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker.

For the quarter, the total (internal plus external) disk storage systems
market generated $7.7 billion in revenue, representing a decline of
-3.2% from the prior year’s first quarter. Total disk storage systems
capacity shipped reached 7.8EBs, growing 26.4% year over year.

"Reduced demand within developed markets caused global sales of external disk systems to fall slightly during the first quarter of 2013," said Eric Sheppard, research director, storage. "Emerging
markets drove growth within the global market but this was not enough
to offset declines elsewhere. Independent storage suppliers were better
positioned to capitalize on this new level of demand than their
competitors, some of whom are currently working through product
transitions and declining server sales."

1Q13 External Disk Storage Systems Results
EMC maintained its lead in the external disk storage systems market with
30.4% revenue share during the quarter, followed by NetApp and IBM with
14.9% and 10.9% respective market share. Hitachi and HP finished the
quarter in a statistical tie for the number 4 position with 8.9% and
8.5% of external sales, respectively.

Open Networked Disk Storage Systems
The total open networked disk storage market (NAS combined with
non-mainframe SAN) grew 0.4% year over year during the quarter to just
over $5.1 billion in revenues. EMC continues to maintain its leadership
in the total open networked storage market with 33.4% revenue share,
followed by NetApp’s 17.1% revenue share.

In the open SAN market, which grew just 1.3% year over year, EMC was the
leading vendor with 31.2% revenue share, followed by IBM in second with
12.6% market share and HP and Hitachi tied for third with 10.8% each.
The NAS market declined -2.2% year over year, led by EMC with 39.6%
revenue share and followed by NetApp with a 37.4% share.

  
WW External Disk Storage Systems Factory Revenue
                        (revenues in $ million)

 (Source: IDC Worldwide Disk Storage Systems
 Quarterly Tracker, June 6, 2013)

1Q13 Total Disk Storage Systems Market Results
In the total worldwide disk storage systems market, EMC finished in the
top position followed by HP with market shares of 23.2% and 15.5%
respectively.

    
WW Total Disk Storage Systems Factory Revenue
                       
(revenues in $ million)

 (Source: IDC Worldwide Disk Storage Systems
 Quarterly Tracker, June 6, 2013)
 Note: Total for 1Q12 is not $2,087 but $7,995 – Editor

Taxonomy Notes:
IDC defines a disk storage system as a set of storage elements,
including controllers, cables, and (in some instances) HBAs, associated
with three or more disks. A system may be located outside of or within a
server cabinet and the average cost of the disk storage systems does
not include infrastructure storage hardware (i.e. switches) and
non-bundled storage software.

The information in this quantitative study is based on a branded view of
the disk storage systems sale. Revenue associated with the products to
the end user is attributed to the seller (brand) of the product, not the
manufacturer. OEM sales are not included in this study. In this study,
HDS sales do not reflect their OEM sales to Sun Microsystems and HP.