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Storage: Sales Starting to Move Back On Track
The storage market saw a glimmer of hope in the fourth quarter of 2009. That was the first quarter of year-over-year market growth in one year, although .2 percent growth is a bit anemic. IDC reported that in the fourth quarter that storage sales grew to $7.27 billion from $7.26 billion a year ago. Although most storage companies reported sizable reductions in revenue when all of 2009 is considered.
Top 5 Vendors, Worldwide Total Disk Storage Systems Factory Revenue, 2009
(Revenues are in Millions) — from the IDC report
| Vendor | 2009 Revenue | 2009 Market Share | 2008 Revenue | 2008 Market Share | 2009/2008 Revenue Growth |
| 1. HP | $4,509 | 18.4% | $5,432 | 19.6% | -17.0% |
| 2. IBM | $4,141 | 16.9% | $4,464 | 16.1% | -7.2% |
| 2. EMC* | $4,108 | 16.8% | $4,553 | 16.4% | -9.8% |
| 4. Dell | $2,790 | 11.4% | $3,114 | 11.2% | -10.4% |
| 5. NetApp | $1,560 | 6.4% | $1,601 | 5.8% | -2.5% |
| Others | $7,357 | 30.1% | $8,597 | 31.1% | -14.4% |
| All Vendors | $24,465 | 100.0% | $27,761 | 100.0% | -11.9% |
But even though sales were down from a year ago, there was a fairly sizable increase in the total capacity of the media that was shipped. 3304 petabyte-worth of capacity was shipped — an increase of 33.4 percent over the previous year. IDC notes that driving the need for additional capacity is the growth of unstructured file-based data that is being stored.
