Latest Storage market status - Q2 2008

HP, IBM, Dell, SUN are all top global enterprises with broad range of products, here i have current market status for these companies in External Storage segment only.

According to analyst group IDC, Despite tough conditions in the U.S. economy, which have decreased demand for everything from new homes to semiconductors, the market for computer data storage Relevant
Products/Services systems is going strong.
EMC continued to lead the external disk storage systems market with 21.7 percent of the revenue share, followed by IBM at 13.1 percent, HP at 12.9 percent, Dell at 9.2 percent, NetApp at 8.0 percent and Hitachi at 7.6 percent. Of the top five suppliers, EMC and NetApp posted the strongest year-over-year revenue growth at 19.7 percent and 17.2 percent, respectively.
The Open SAN market grew 15.5 percent year-over-year, with EMC leading with 23.9 percent of revenue share, followed by HP at 16.7 percent. The NAS market experienced year-over-year growth of 23.5 percent, with EMC leading with 39.8 percent of revenue share, followed by NetApp at 28.5 percent. The iSCSI SAN market showed year-over-year revenue growth of 93.9 percent, with Dell leading the market (due to its acquisition of EqualLogic) with 32.8 percent of the revenue share, followed by NetApp at 14.6 percent and EMC at 14.1 percent.

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