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Appeared on: Friday, March 7, 2014
External Disk Storage Systems Market Recovers from Slump

The external disk storage systems factory revenues increased year over year by 2.4%, totaling $6.9 billion, during the fourth quarter of 2013 (4Q13), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC).

For the quarter, the total (internal plus external) disk storage systems market generated $8.8 billion in revenue, representing a 1.3% increase from the prior year's fourth quarter and a sequential increase of 17.2% compared to the seasonally lower 3Q13. Total disk storage systems capacity shipped surpassed 10.2 exabytes, growing 26.2% year over year,IDC's study found.

"The disk storage systems market was able to break free of recent headwinds due to traditional year-end budget flushes, improved economic sentiment, and a strong desire to address long-standing storage infrastructure inefficiencies," said Eric Sheppard, Research Director, IDC Storage. "Industry stakeholders able to capitalize the most on this demand were often those with recent product refreshes and strong go-to-market initiatives targeted at integrated infrastructure and storage optimization."

EMC experienced the greatest year-over-year share gains during the quarter, improving its share in the external disk storage systems market from 30.7% (4Q12) to 32.9% of total 4Q13 revenue. IBM was the second largest supplier in the market with 13.0% share of external revenue followed by NetApp which accounted for 11.5%. HP and Hitachi rounded out the top 5 vendors with 9.6% and 8.1% revenue shares respectively during the quarter.

Top 5 Vendors, Worldwide External Disk Storage Systems Market, Fourth Quarter of 2013 (Revenues are in Millions)

Vendor

4Q13 Revenue

4Q13 Market Share

4Q12 Revenue

4Q12 Market Share

4Q13/4Q12 Revenue Growth

1. EMC

$2,276

32.9%

$2,071

30.7%

9.9%

2. IBM

$901

13.0%

$1,009

14.9%

-10.6%

3. NetApp

$791

11.5%

$780

11.6%

1.5%

4. HP

$667

9.6%

$626

9.3%

6.5%

5. Hitachi

$558

8.1%

$590

8.8%

-5.6%

Others

$1,716

24.8%

$1,670

24.8%

2.7%

All Vendors

$6,909

100.0%

$6,746

100.0%

2.4%



Top 5 Vendors, Worldwide Total Disk Storage Systems Market, Fourth Quarter of 2013 (Revenues are in Millions)

Vendor

4Q13 Revenue

4Q13 Market Share

4Q12 Revenue

4Q12 Market Share

4Q13/4Q12 Revenue Growth

1. EMC

$2,276

25.8%

$2,071

23.8%

9.9%

2. HP

$1,441

16.3%

$1,382

15.9%

4.3%

3. IBM

$1,240

14.0%

$1,397

16.0%

-11.2%

4. Dell

$875

9.9%

$983

11.3%

-11.0%

5. NetApp

$791

9.0%

$780

9.0%

1.5%

Others

$2,202

25.0%

$2,095

24.0%

5.1%

All Vendors

$8,825

100.0%

$8,708

100.0%

1.3%



The total open networked disk storage market (NAS Combined with non-mainframe SAN) grew by 4.0% year over year to almost $6 billion in revenue. EMC maintained its leadership in the total open networked storage market with 35.6% revenue share, followed by NetApp's 13.3% and IBM's 12.1% revenue share.

In the total worldwide disk storage systems market, EMC finished in the top position followed by HP with market shares of 25.8% and 16.3% respectively.




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