Gartner And IDC Observe Disk Growth
Gartner And IDC Observe Disk Growth
June 6th, 2006: In more storage market news, both Gartner and IDC have highlighted the thriving nature of the disk storage market reporting strong growth, and predicting even stronger annual growth through 2010.
Gartner found that worldwide external controller-based (ECB) disk storage revenue totalled U.S.$3.8 billion in first quarter 2006, an 8.6 percent increase over the same period last year.
It has IBM moving up to the number two position with 12.7 percent worldwide ECB market share, with HP slipping to third with 12.4 percent. EMC has retained poll position with 24.1 percent market share.
Gartner also found that Sun Microsystems stood out with the strongest growth, however it wasn’t enough to lift it from the number seven spot after Hitachi, Dell and Netapp.
“Although Sun experienced the strongest growth year-over-year among the top-tier vendors, with 29.8 percent revenue growth, Sun’s growth was primarily a result of its recent acquisition of StorageTek in the third quarter of last year,” says Donna Taylor, principal analyst for Gartner’s global Storage Quarterly Statistics program. “While NetApp and Dell showed organic revenue growth of 25.1 and 22.3 percent, these figures represent a slowdown in revenue growth for both vendors from the same period last year.”
When it comes to the overall market, IDC says the market momentum will keep building. Its analysts saw worldwide disk storage system revenue increased 10.5 percent over 2004 and it expects the market to continue to expand as terabyte shipments grow more than 50 percent annually through 2010.
“The constant demands for storing more data is causing IT managers to look for ways to bring more efficiency to the data centre with limited budgets,” says Natalya Yezhkova, senior analyst for Storage System research at IDC. “These demands will increase in intensity and diversity over the next few years. OEMs must understand the storage infrastructure development stages and emerging data intensive applications in order to meet these needs and capitalise on a thriving storage market.”
IDC found that:
- Worldwide disk storage system revenue will reach U.S.$29.8 billion in 2010.
- Roughly two-thirds of all storage terabytes shipped in 2010 will be based on capacity-oriented disk drives.
- iSCSI SAN revenue will top U.S.$5.1 billion by 2010.
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