EMC tops storage software sales for Q3 | | 2008-12-12 | | | The worldwide storage software market experienced its 20th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth in the third quarter of 2008 according to IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker.Top vendor EMC took 24.7% of the market share with a revenue of $758 million followed by Symantec (17.8%), IBM (12.9%), NetApp (8.5%) and HP (4.3%). Other vendors took just over 30%.Overall revenue for the period was $3.1 billion, up 11.6 on the same period last year with strong performance in archiving, file systems, data protection and recovery, and storage management.According to James Baker, research manager, Storage Software for IDC "File Systems are showing strength as virtualization spreads to the storage arena. Data Protection and Recovery is growing because users are aware of dire consequences to the firm if their data is not available when it is needed. And Storage Management is moving ahead as more data is put under management and improved storage efficiencies are being achieved with thin provisioning and as various Green IT projects come on line". | |
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