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Worldwide disk storage system revenues grow 7%, nas sales dip by 123wert sdfsf
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External disk storage systems saw big year-over-year growth in thefirst quarter of 2012, with revenues rising 7.1% or $6 billion,according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker . More than six petabytes of capacity shipped during the quarter. EMC continued to lead in external disk storage system sales with29% of the overall revenue share in the first quarter, followed byNetApp with 14.1% of the market. IBM followed with 11.4%, andHewlett-Packard and Hitachi Data Systems ended the quarter with10.2% and 9.4% market shares, respectively.
The NAS market declined 1.9% year over year. EMC led in NAS saleswith 42.6% revenue share, followed by NetApp with 36.4%. The iSCSISAN market continued to show strong sales with 17.6% revenue growthcompared to the same quarter in 2011. Dell led the iSCSI SAN marketwith 33% revenue share, followed by EMC and NetApp with 18.9% and13.7% market shares, respectively.
Even though monsoonal flooding in Thailand shut down manufacturingfacilities last year and caused hard disk drive shortages, theexternal storage systems market remains strong, said IDC analystLiz Conner. Hardest hit were entry-level systems that have anaverage selling price of less than $25,000. Those system salessuffered most because they typically use serial ATA (SATA) orlower-priced near-line serial SCSI (SAS) drives, which experiencedthe highest price increases due to the flooding. "However, strong overall growth in emerging regions and theslowdown in price-per-gigabyte erosion helped the market postyear-over-year growth," Conner said.
IHS iSuppli released a report earlier this week that predicted hard drive prices will remainhigh and are unlikely to fall to pre-flood levels until 2014. In the wake of the flooding, hard drive prices rose to an averageof $66 in the fourth quarter of 2011, a 28% jump from the $51average price in the previous quarter, according to IHS iSuppli.The average price held steady at $66 in the first quarter of 2012and is expected to decline only marginally, to about $65, in thesecond quarter, IHS iSuppli said. IDC analyst Amita Potnis said the high-end storage segment, whichis represented by systems with price tags north of $250,000,remained flat year over year and declined 13% sequentially in thefirst quarter of 2012. "The high-end segment grew significantly in 2010 and 2011 owing tothe loosened storage budgets after the economic crisis of 2009.
IDCbelieves that the softened growth in the high-end segment thisquarter is reflective of what will be a long-term trend," Potnissaid. Open Networked Disk Storage Systems The open networked disk storage market, which includes Open SANs,iSCSI SANs and NAS systems, grew 8.5% year over year in the firstquarter with $5.1 billion in revenues, according to IDC. EMCmaintained its lead there with 32.2% revenue share, followed byNetApp with a 16.4%. The Open SAN market, which includes Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FibreChannel over Ethernet, InfiniBand and switched SAS, showed 13%year-over-year growth in the first quarter. EMC also lead thatmarket with 28.3% revenue share, followed by IBM and HP with 13.8%and 12.3% market shares, respectively.
Lucas Mearian covers storage, disaster recovery and businesscontinuity, financial services infrastructure and health care ITfor Computerworld. Follow Lucas on Twitter at @lucasmearian or subscribe to Lucas's RSS feed . His e-mail address is . See more by Lucas Mearian on Computerworld.com.
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