Global External Disk Storage Systems Factory Revenue Up 2.3% In 4Q12: IDC

Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues posted year-over-year growth of 2.3 percent, totaling just over $6.7 billion, in the fourth quarter of 2012 (4Q12), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. For the quarter, the total (internal plus external) disk storage systems market generated $8.6 billion in revenue, representing 0.7 percent growth from the prior year’s fourth quarter. Total disk storage systems capacity shipped in 4Q12 reached 8 exabytes, growing 25.3 percent year over year. The external disk storage systems market generated $24.7 billion in sales during the full year, which represented a 4.7 percent increase over 2011. Total external disk storage systems capacity shipped during the year surpassed 20 exabytes, which represents an increase of 27 percent over 2011.

“Although the rate of growth decelerated during the quarter, the external disk storage system market finished the year with solid fourth quarter results and even posted a record-breaking $24.7 billion in full year factory revenue,” said Eric Sheppard, Research Director, Storage. “FICON attached array sales and network attached storage (NAS) both helped drive the factory revenue increase during the quarter as companies invested in storage required to support mainframe environments and to deal with the continued growth in unstructured data.”
4Q12 External Disk Storage Systems Results

EMC maintained its lead in the external disk storage systems market with 30.7 percent revenue share in the fourth quarter, followed by IBM and NetApp with 15.0 percent and 11.6 percent market share, respectively. HP and Hitachi ended the quarter in a statistical tie for the number four position with market shares of 9.3 percent and 8.8 percent, respectively.

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Open Networked Disk Storage Systems Highlights
The total open networked disk storage market (NAS Combined with Open / iSCSI SAN) grew 2.6 percent year over year in the fourth quarter to just over $5.7 billion in revenues. EMC continues to maintain its leadership in the total open networked storage market with 34.2 percent revenue share, followed by NetApp with a 13.7 percent revenue share.

In the Open SAN market, which grew just 0.3 percent year over year, EMC was the leading vendor with 28.7 percent revenue share, followed by IBM in second with 18.0 percent market share and HP and Hitachi tied for third with 11.9 percent and 11.4 percent shares, respectively. The NAS market increased 8.8 percent year over year, led by EMC with 48.2 percent revenue share and followed by NetApp with 28.3 percent share.

4Q12 Total Disk Storage Systems Market Results
In the total worldwide disk storage systems market, EMC finished in the top position with 24.0 percent market share based on revenues followed by IBM and HP in a statistical tie for second with market shares of 16.2 percent and 16.0 percent respectively.