March 15th, 2006
Storage software market leaders in Q4 2005: EMC, Symantec, IBM
EMC led the global storage software market in Q4 2005 with 29.2% revenue share. Symantec took the second position with 19.7% revenue share, while IBM finished in the third position with 11.5% revenue share, posting a strong result of 32.6% YTY growth. Network Appliance and HP once again rounded the top 5 in a statistical tie with 6.7% and 6.5% revenue share, respectively. Network Appliance and IBM posted the strongest YTY revenue growth among the top 5 vendors, with 41.3% and 32.6% YTY growth, respectively.
| Top storage software vendors in Q4 2005 | |||||
| Q4 2005 | Q4 2004 | Growth | |||
| Vendor | Revenue | Share | Revenue | Share | YTY |
| EMC | $714 | 29.2% | $674 | 30.7% | 5.8% |
| Symantec | $481 | 19.7% | $461 | 21.0% | 4.4% |
| IBM | $280 | 11.5% | $211 | 9.6% | 32.6% |
| Network Appliance | $164 | 6.7% | $116 | 5.3% | 41.2% |
| Hewlett-Packard | $159 | 6.5% | $150 | 6.8% | 6.1% |
| Others | $647 | 26.4% | $587 | 26.7% | 10.3% |
| All Vendors | $2,446 | 100.0% | $2,200 | 100.0% | 11.2% |
| Source: IDC | |||||
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