NEWS RELEASE: EMC Leads External Disk Storage Systems Market for 14th Consecutive Year and Gains Market Share, Analyst Firm Reports
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EMC Leads External Disk Storage Systems Market for 14th Consecutive
Year and Gains Market Share, Analyst Firm Reports HOPKINTON, Mass. – March 4, 2011– EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the
world leader in information infrastructure
(http://www.emc.com/solutions/business-need/virtualizing-information-infrastructure/index.htm)
solutions, remains the top provider of external disk storage systems for
the 14th consecutive year in factory revenue, according to the latest
IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, March 2011. EMC®
gained share in all of the major markets it serves and has delivered a
wide range of new technologies to address the growing markets for
virtualization, next generation backup, cloud computing and big data. Highlights * According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker
(March 2011), EMC holds the number one position in revenue and terabytes
shipped in the external disk storage systems market for 2010. EMC
maintained its worldwide lead in the external RAID, total open networked
storage (NAS combined with Open/iSCSI SAN), open Storage Area Network
(SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) markets.
* According to IDC, this is the 14th consecutive year EMC has led the
external disk storage systems market in terms of both revenue and
terabytes shipped.
* In the NAS market, EMC extended its number one position in 2010 by
growing significantly faster than the market on a year-over-year basis,
according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker
(March 2011).
* The market share gains were the result of global customer acceptance
of EMC’s wide range of storage technologies. EMC has the most
comprehensive and current storage product line available and in 2010
invested more than US$2 billion in research and development. In
addition, EMC invested substantially to expand its channel ecosystem and
internal sales infrastructure.
* In January 2011, EMC further extended its technology leadership with
the largest product introduction in storage industry history, unveiling
more than 40 new products and technologies addressing the fastest
growing areas of the industry, including big data and cloud computing. “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 centres 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.” About EMC EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world’s leading developer and
provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that
enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and
create value from their information. Information about EMC’s products
and services can be found at www.EMC.com. EMC Canada (www.EMC2.ca), headquartered in Toronto with nine offices
from coast to coast, is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation. - 30 - For more information contact:
Mike Martin/Michelle Chang
StrategicAmpersand
416-961-5595
mike@stratamp.com
michelle@stratamp.com
EMC, VMAX and VNX are either registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC
Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. VMware is a
registered trademark or trademark
of VMware, Inc. in the United States
and/or other countries All other trademarks used herein are the property
of their respective owners.
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Year and Gains Market Share, Analyst Firm Reports HOPKINTON, Mass. – March 4, 2011– EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the
world leader in information infrastructure
(http://www.emc.com/solutions/business-need/virtualizing-information-infrastructure/index.htm)
solutions, remains the top provider of external disk storage systems for
the 14th consecutive year in factory revenue, according to the latest
IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, March 2011. EMC®
gained share in all of the major markets it serves and has delivered a
wide range of new technologies to address the growing markets for
virtualization, next generation backup, cloud computing and big data. Highlights * According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker
(March 2011), EMC holds the number one position in revenue and terabytes
shipped in the external disk storage systems market for 2010. EMC
maintained its worldwide lead in the external RAID, total open networked
storage (NAS combined with Open/iSCSI SAN), open Storage Area Network
(SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) markets.
* According to IDC, this is the 14th consecutive year EMC has led the
external disk storage systems market in terms of both revenue and
terabytes shipped.
* In the NAS market, EMC extended its number one position in 2010 by
growing significantly faster than the market on a year-over-year basis,
according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker
(March 2011).
* The market share gains were the result of global customer acceptance
of EMC’s wide range of storage technologies. EMC has the most
comprehensive and current storage product line available and in 2010
invested more than US$2 billion in research and development. In
addition, EMC invested substantially to expand its channel ecosystem and
internal sales infrastructure.
* In January 2011, EMC further extended its technology leadership with
the largest product introduction in storage industry history, unveiling
more than 40 new products and technologies addressing the fastest
growing areas of the industry, including big data and cloud computing. “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 centres 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.” About EMC EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) is the world’s leading developer and
provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that
enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and
create value from their information. Information about EMC’s products
and services can be found at www.EMC.com. EMC Canada (www.EMC2.ca), headquartered in Toronto with nine offices
from coast to coast, is a wholly owned subsidiary of EMC Corporation. - 30 - For more information contact:
Mike Martin/Michelle Chang
StrategicAmpersand
416-961-5595
mike@stratamp.com
michelle@stratamp.com
EMC, VMAX and VNX are either registered trademarks or trademarks of EMC
Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. VMware is a
registered trademark or trademark
of VMware, Inc. in the United States
and/or other countries All other trademarks used herein are the property
of their respective owners.
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reply to this e-mail with "remove" in the subject header.