Sun Microsystems asserts leadership

MUMBAI, INDIA: Sun Microsystems today announced that it has earned a leadership position in the India External Storage market in terms of Customer Revenue for the quarter ended June 30, 2008.

Sivasankaran Lakshminarayan, director- Storage Practice, Sun Microsystems India said, "Sun has earned the no.1 spot in the India external storage market. This underscores the fact that our strategy and products are in line with our customers' requirements."

"Sun today offers the strongest product portfolio across both open systems and mainframes and over the last few years, Sun External Storage has been gaining momentum in India with new customers across verticals and improved channel performance," he added.

As per IDC's Asia/Pacific Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, Q2 2008, September 2008 release, Sun Microsystems garnered 22 per cent market share in customer revenue terms for the period Q2 CY 2008 (April - June), said a press release.

The India External Storage market grew 48 per cent year on year  (Q2 2008 over Q2 2007) in customer revenue terms, whereas Sun's market share in the India External Storage market grew 103 per cent during the same period.

According to Sankalp Shrie, senior manager, Computing Products Research, IDC India, "Sun has been a leading player in the External Storage market in the country and the latest figures ratify this. The significant increase in Sun's market share (from 16 per cent in Q2 2007) can be attributed to product innovation combined with their excellent sales and marketing effort.”

Sun Microsystems also announced that as per Gartner's Quarterly Statistics: Disk Array Storage, Asia/Pacific and Japan report, released in June 2008, it has earned a leadership position in the External Storage market in India with 22.2 per cent market share in revenue terms for the period Q2 CY08.