Direktlänk till inlägg 17 mars 2011
The storage software market recorded its fifth successive quarter of year-on-year growth at the end of 2010 with all five of the top-ranked players increasing sales during the quarter, according to estimates published on Monday.
The storage software market was worth US$3.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2010, a jump of 10.6 percent from the same period in 2009, IDC said.
The largest single vendor was EMC, which notched up storage software revenue of $866 million, up 18 percent from a year earlier. Symantec ranked second but achieved just 0.1 percent growth, at $543 million.
Symantec's inability to increase its sales enabled IBM to close the gap on its rival, but the two companies remain separated by a wide margin. IBM came in third at $443 million. NetApp followed in fourth place at $312 million and Hitachi was ranked fifth at $148 million. Hitachi achieved the strongest growth of the top five companies, managing to increase sales 47 percent in the quarter, said IDC.
The storage software market has been growing since late 2009. For the full year of 2010, the market expanded by 10.3 percent to $12.7 billion and reversed a 3.2 percent contraction in 2009, said IDC.
"The storage software market is in the midst of a sustained recovery, which is partly driven by new product innovations, and partly by a strong desire to address inefficiencies related to storing, protecting, and managing corporate data," said Eric Sheppard, research director with IDC's Storage Software program, in a statement.
Within the segment, storage infrastructure software recorded the strongest growth at 23.6 percent last year. The data protection and recovery market remains the largest single sector. It was worth $4.4 billion last year, accounting for more than a third of the entire software storage industry, said IDC.
"A considerable increase in storage software designed to enable automated storage tiering, coupled with a continued market trend of addressing aging, inefficient storage deployments were two important drivers of market growth during the quarter," said Sheppard.
(IDC is a subsidiary of International Data Group, the parent company of IDG News Service.)
Martyn Williams covers Japan and general technology breaking news for The IDG News Service. Follow Martyn on Twitter at @martyn_williams. Martyn's e-mail address is martyn_williams@idg.com
NEW YORK (Reuters) – The president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank doesn't normally face a raucous crowd. But in Queens, New York, on Friday, William Dudley was bombarded with questions about food inflation, and his attempt to put rising...
Think you can improve upon the notoriously low response rate to banner ads? Then Saab has a challenge for you. The automaker Thursday launched a promotion on its Facebook Page where fans can write and star in their own Saab banners that are designe...
Across the universe dvd 3 disc High performance computing mac Computing synastry charts in astrolog Computing capital gains tax Education background for networking installer Port louis international networking ltd Orcid business computing Grid comput...
The Nokia X1-00 is designed to allow users in emerging markets to listen to music on their phone, Nokia said in a blog post on Tuesday. The X1-00 will cost about €34 (US$50) before operator subsidies and taxes. It has an MP3 player, a 3.5 mil...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Discovery is on track for a Wednesday landing — its very last one. Commander Steven Lindsey and his crew will test the shuttle's systems Tuesday morning. Then the six astronauts will hold a ceremony ...
Må | Ti | On | To | Fr | Lö | Sö | |||
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
||||
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 |
13 |
|||
14 |
15 |
16 |
17 | 18 |
19 |
20 |
|||
21 |
22 |
23 |
24 |
25 |
26 |
27 |
|||
28 |
29 |
30 |
31 |
||||||
|