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History 2005: WW External Disk Storage Revenue Totaled $13.5 Billion in 2004

5% increase over 2003

WW external controller-based disk storage revenue totalled $13.5 billion in 2004, a 5.1% increase over 2003, according to Gartner.

This market grew only 1.2% from 4Q03 to 4Q04.

Even though C-level executives are willing to invest in storage infrastructures to reduce operational costs and to improve business processes, several factors influenced the slow revenue growth in 2004,” said Roger W. Cox, VP storage research group at Gartner. “During 2H04, 4 vendors, IBM, HP, Hitachi/HOS and Sun, experienced disruptive field execution or product transition issues, resulting in a typical Y/Y revenue declines.”

EMC’s broad external controller based disk storage portfolio, focused field organization, channel friendly partnership programs and crisp execution on all fronts enabled it to gain two points of market share in 2004. NetApp produced the largest growth rate in 2004 among the top-tier vendors, with a revenue increase of 25.6%.

NetApp was successful in penetrating the mission critical and database markets,” Cox said. “Its unified storage systems, supported by the same operating system and software products, have proved to simplify storage management over direct attached and conventional SAN-attached storage.”

This article is an abstract of news published on issue 207 on April 2005 from the former paper version of Computer Data  Storage Newsletter.

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