IDC Finds That EMC Dominated External Storage Market in 2010

When it comes to figuring out the market situation, any market has its share of analysts, and IDC has issued a press release in which it announced its findings regarding the market for external disk storage systems.

The first quarter of 2011 may have already gone past its fist half, but it is still not too late for 2010 financial results to be published, apparently.

In this instance, IDC is the one that studied a specific IT segment, that of external disk storage systems to be exact.

Some may know that, back in 2009, EMC scored its thirteenth year of dominance in this area, and it seems that 2010 became its 14th year.

The latest IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker (March 2011) says that EMC dominated in terms of both shipments and revenues.

It performed especially well on the NAS (network-attached storage) segment and released over 40 new products and technologies for big data and cloud computing, among other things.

"EMC continues to lead the market because customers and partners believe in our strategy, vision and ability to execute. The technology innovations and investments EMC made in 2010 are clearly being embraced by customers on their journey to the cloud," said Pat Gelsinger, president and chief operating officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products.

"We entered 2011 putting even greater distance between ourselves and our competitors across our storage portfolio with the new EMC VNX® family of unified storage systems, new and enhanced products in our backup and archiving portfolio, and powerful new software offerings for our flagship VMAX™ storage system.”

“As customers continue to virtualize their data centers and standardize their consolidated environments onto a small number of trusted vendors, we believe EMC stands out as a best-of-breed and best VMware-integrated information infrastructure provider."

Overall, EMC still has a strong hold over the Network Attached Storage (NAS) market, open Storage Area Network (SAN) and open networked storage (NAS combined with Open/iSCSI SAN).