Bangkok – June 9, 2005 – EMC Corporation, the world leader in information storage and management, extended its market share lead in worldwide revenue for external disk storage systems for the seventh consecutive quarter in the first fiscal quarter of 2005, according to a new report from IDC, the top 3 vendors in Asia Pacific are EMC, which is No. 1 of market shares in external storage in Asia Pacific (excluding Japan) recorded at 23.9%, followed by HP at 21.9% and IBM for 18.7 %. [a]. EMC expanded its portion of the market on a year-over-year basis and gained more share, year-over-year, than any of the next three largest suppliers [b]. In the first quarter EMC also held the #1 position in every major segment of the external disk storage systems market including External RAID, Networked Storage, Open/iSCSI SAN (storage area network) and NAS (network attached storage).
Howard Elias, EMC Executive Vice President, Corporate Marketing and Office of Technology, said, “Customer adoption of our broad range of best-of breed storage platforms, software and services continues to expand our leadership position. Seven consecutive quarters of extending our market-share lead in external disk storage attests to the strength of EMC’s strategy, the consistency of our execution, and, above all, customer appreciation for our focus on delivering comprehensive information lifecycle management.”
First Quarter Highlights
In the first quarter, EMC was #1 in External Disk Storage Systems revenue with 21.4% share, extending its revenue share lead over Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Hitachi and Sun Microsystems. According to IDC, EMC also extended its lead in external RAID storage to 23.1% share and grew its position in networked storage, which includes Fibre Channel SANs, iSCSI SANs and network-attached storage (NAS), to 29% revenue share. EMC also led in the Open/iSCSI SAN market with 26.7% revenue share and recaptured the top spot in NAS from Network Appliance with 37.9% revenue share.
North America, Western Europe and Asia Pacific
According to IDC, EMC was #1 in external RAID disk storage systems revenue in the United States in the first quarter with 31.7% revenue share. In Western Europe, EMC was #1 in external RAID disk storage systems with 22.9% revenue share as it continued to build on the lead it captured last year. In Asia Pacific, EMC recaptured the lead in external RAID from Hewlett-Packard and had 23.9% revenue share for the first quarter.
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[a] IDC “Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, June 2005”; EMC share includes factory revenue from “EMC” branded storage systems only and excludes sales of re-branded EMC systems sold by EMC partners including Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, Samsung and Langchao Electronic Information Industry Corp., Ltd.
[b] All comparisons included in this release are year over year unless noted.
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