IDC: Storage spending on the decline; Dell and Hitachi perform better
By Tarry Singh at 5 June, 2009, 4:15 am
It reports that iSCSI sales, a relatively small segment of the market, did well, posting 40.5 percent revenue growth. Natalya Yezhkova, IDC’s Storage Systems research manager, said: “Price sensitivity was a big factor in the healthy growth of iSCSI SAN, the only installation environment segment that ended the quarter in positive territory.”
Dell led the iSCSI market with a 36.4 percent revenue share, followed by EMC with 15.8 per cent. In the last quarter of 2008 iSCSI SAN grew a stronger 61.6 per cent year-on-year and, again, Dell took the top spot with a 35.3 per cent revenue share, EMC being second with 16.8 per cent. With this cementing of its lead we can see Dell has done very well with EqualLogic.
HP led the total disk storage systems market ($975m, 17.4 per cent) with EMC second (15.5 per cent). EMC’s share rose from 15.1 per cent a year ago while HP’s fell from 19.1 per cent. IBM in third place also showed a decline, from 15.1 per cent to 14.4 percent. Dell is in fourth place at 11.7 percent, up from 11.6 per cent. Hitachi also did well in this segment, with a rise from 6.5 to 7.3 per cent. NetApp in fifth place showed the same pattern, up from 6.3 to 6.6 per cent.
Dell is doing a lot better relatively than everyone else. Hitachi is having a good quarter and NetApp is also doing quite well, while HP and IBM are losing revenue market share. EMC’s picture is mixed. It lost share in the total external disk storage systems market but gained it in the total disk storage systems market, presumably as more direct-attached storage capacity moved into the external storage category.
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