Compaq leader in disk storage market: IDC

BANGAORE: Compaq Computer Corporation has been rated number one, for the year

2001, in global disk storage systems (both internal and external) market by

industry analyst firm IDC. The rating has been in terms of revenue, terabytes

sold and units shipped. This is according to a recent report on the worldwide

disk storage market released by IDC.






During the year 2000, Compaq India has shipped 385 terabytes out of a total of
1040.4 terabytes, shipped into India. Compaq India also leads in the external

storage market with revenues of $ 24.7 million in the year 2000 out of a total

revenue figure of $78.1 million.

"This IDC report on Compaq’s leadership in the worldwide disk storage

market complements Compaq India’s position in the Indian storage market.
Compaq India was the first vendor to aggressively tap the potential of the
Indian storage market. We have played a key role in educating Indian enterprises

about the importance of a sound storage infrastructure," said Compaq India’

Enterprise Storage, business manager, Owais Khan.






Compaq is all set to launch its new Universal Network Storage - StorageWorks NAS
E7000, that fuses networked attached storage (NAS) with storage area networks

(SAN).






IDC also forecasts that Compaq will ship 100 petabytes of capacity in 2001, more
than two and a half times the capacity forecasted by their nearest competitor.

Compaq will grow market share while the overall market decreases 18.2 per cent,

settling at $25.5 billion.






"In tough economic times, customers are making their buying decisions based
on a keen desire to lower costs and maximize return on investment, combined with

confidence in the strength of Compaq StorageWorks and the superiority of our

overall vision of enterprise storage," said Mark Lewis, vice president and

general manager, Compaq Enterprise Storage Group. "In 2001, Compaq

StorageWorks introduced a number of products and technologies to the marketplace

that essentially reinvented the Enterprise Storage market. These technologies

are allowing our customers to do more with storage at a much lower cost."