EMC named leader in storage software market

BANGALORE, INDIA: EMC Corporation, a provider in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that it was named as the leader in storage software market in total revenue again for 2008 by the latest IDC Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker, March 2009.

In addition to leading the overall storage software market for the full year of 2008, EMC also led in three storage software categories – storage replication, storage device management and storage management, said a press release.

According to EMC, the company achieved 11 per cent annual growth in software license and maintenance revenue during 2008, when combining its storage software market leadership and other areas of software leadership like virtualization, enterprise content management and archive, resource management and information security.

The over all revenue for software segment was up by 40 per cent, it added.

“EMC continues to show the strength and breadth in its storage software portfolio by again leading the overall market. In 2008, we were able to deliver new and updated software functionality that helped customers lower costs, simplify the management of expanding environments, meet new data protection requirements and control explosive data growth,” said BJ Jenkins, EMC’s senior vice president, global marketing.

He added that they have continued to expand their broad software support for virtual environments by adding functionality in the areas of backup, data deduplication, replication and resource management.

Jenkins commented, “Additionally, we continued to expand key integration points between EMC storage software and hardware products in 2008, helping customers with turnkey solutions that drive efficiency, mitigate risk and reduce total cost of ownership.”