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Worldwide ECB disk storage market declines

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STAMFORD, USA: Worldwide external controller-based (ECB) disk storage revenue totaled nearly $3.8 billion in the second quarter of 2009, a 15.7 percent decline from the same period in 2008, according to Gartner Inc.

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Donna Taylor, principal research analyst, global storage quarterly statistics program, Gartner, said: “The year-over-year double-digit decline of 15.7 percent primarily resulted from the economic downturn and longer sales cycles. A bright spot in the disk array market has been in network attached storage (NAS), which experienced a 3.5 percent year-over-year growth rate in the second quarter of 2009.”

EMC maintained its No.1 position with 23.7 percent revenue market share. IBM placed second with 15.7 percent, and Hewlett-Packard came in third with 10.3 percent of the market. Dell placed fourth with 9.2 percent, followed by Hitachi/HDS with 8.7 percent. NetApp and Sun Microsystems placed sixth and seventh, respectively, with 8.5 percent and 4.5 percent market share.

Table 1

Worldwide External Controller-Based Disk Storage Vendor Revenue Estimates for 2Q09
(Millions of U.S. Dollars)

2Q09 Revenue ($M)

2Q09 Market Share (%)

2Q08 Revenue ($M)

2Q08 Market Share (%)

2Q08 -2Q09 Revenue   Change (%)

Company

EMC1

891.9

23.7

1,082.9

24.2

-17.6

IBM

592.7

15.7

628.3

14.1

-5.7

Hewlett-Packard

388.3

10.3

540.5

12.1

-28.2

Dell

345.4

9.2

402.6

9.0

-14.2

Hitachi/HDS2

326.8

8.7

379.6

8.5

-13.9

NetApp

322.1

8.5

357.0

8.0

-9.8

Sun Microsystems

169.3

4.5

294.0

6.6

-42.4

Others3

730.9

19.4

786.0

17.6

-7.0

Total

3,767.5

100.0

4,470.9

100.0

-15.7

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