March 3rd, 2006
External storage market up 17.9% in Q4 2005
Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues grew $708 mln in Q4 2005, posting 17.9% growth from Q4 2004 to $4.7 bln, according to IDC. In Q4 2005 the total disk storage systems market grew to $6.8 bln up 13.1% from Q4 2004. Total disk storage systems capacity shipped reached 653 petabytes, growing 54.6%. EMC maintained its lead in the external disk storage systems market with 20.6% revenue share, followed by HP and IBM with 18.0% and 15.9% revenue share, respectively. Dell and Hitachi rounded out the top 5 with 9.2% and 7.3%, respectively. Among the top 5 suppliers, Dell and IBM posted the strongest YTY revenue growth during Q4 2005, with 54.2% and 46.8% growth, respectively.
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Global external storage market in Q4 2005 |
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| Q4 2005 | Q4 2004 | Growth | |||
| Vendor | Revenue, mln. $ | Share | Revenue, mln. $ | Share | YTY |
| EMC | $962 | 20.6% | $863 | 21.8% | 11.6% |
| HP | $838 | 18.0% | $745 | 18.8% | 12.4% |
| IBM | $743 | 15.9% | $506 | 12.8% | 46.8% |
| Dell | $428 | 9.2% | $278 | 7.0% | 54.2% |
| Hitachi | $340 | 7.3% | $322 | 8.1% | 5.6% |
| Others | $1,352 | 29.0% | $1,242 | 31.4% | 8.9% |
| Total | $4,664 | 100.0% | $3,955 | 100.0% | 17.9% |
| Source: IDC | |||||
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