For the quarter, the total disk storage systems market grew to $6.8 billion in revenues, representing 20.7 percent growth from the prior year's second quarter. Total disk storage systems capacity shipped reach 3,645 petabytes, growing 54.6 percent year over year.
EMC maintained its lead in the external disk storage systems market with 25.7 percent revenue share in the second quarter, followed by IBM in second with 13.6 percent market share, said IDC.
According to the research firm, NetApp and HP are in a statistical tie for third place with 11.4 percent and 11.3 percent market share respectively. Dell ended in the fifth position with 9.4 percent market share. Given the recent interest in 3PAR, IDC notes that for 2Q10, 3PAR’s share in the total external disk storage systems market was 0.78 percent.
The total open networked disk storage market (NAS Combined with Open / iSCSI SAN) grew 29.2 percent year over year in the second quarter to $4.2 billion in revenues. EMC continues to maintain its leadership in the total open networked storage market with 28.9 percent revenue share, followed by NetApp with a 13.6 percent revenue share.
In the Open SAN market, which grew 21.8 percent year over year, EMC was the leading vendor with 21.8 percent revenue share, followed by IBM in second and HP in third with 15.9 percent and 14.8 percent share, respectively.
The NAS market grew 51.1 percent year over year, led by EMC with 45.6 percent revenue share and followed by NetApp with 25.2 percent share. The iSCSI SAN market continues to show strong momentum, posting 49 percent revenue growth compared to the prior year's quarter.
Dell led the market with 32.9 percent revenue share, followed by HP, NetApp, and EMC, all in a statistical tie for second, with 14.2 percent, 13.4 percent, and 13.3 percent market share respectively.
Liz Conner, senior research analyst for storage systems at IDC said: “The external disk storage systems market grew 18.6 percent from the first half of 2009 in terms of factory revenue and three percent from the second half of 2009.
“Although the first half of 2009 was extremely weak due to the economic crisis, the gain from a relatively strong second half of 2009 shows continued customer investment and importance placed in the storage systems market.”
Amita Potnis, senior research analyst for storage systems at IDC, said: “The recent economic crisis had greatly affected the upper mid-range and high-end storage market. The second quarter saw a good recovery of the upper mid-range (PB $100K-$249.99K) and high-end (PB $250K+) storage market with year-over-year growth of 30.5 percent.
“The recovery in this segment was driven by NAS and SAN system sales, which grew 58.4 percent and 30.2 percent respectively, exceeding the overall market growth. It appears, however, that the market is heading toward a more cautious growth path going forward.”
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