New independent market share findings and publicly reported results from the first six months of 2001 show that EMC is expanding its lead in the rapidly growing market for networked information storage (NIS). NIS represents both storage area network (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS) deployments.
Patrick Ricaud, country manager of EMC SA, says: "We expect more than 70% of information storage deployments will be networked within the next three to four years. This unmistakable trend is creating huge opportunities for the many EMC customers who have embraced the value of unprecedented access and consolidation of their information assets. As more and more information is stored and managed in these SAN and NAS environments, customers will continue to need fewer general-purpose servers."
In a report to be released next month detailing actual 2000 results for SAN deployments, Gartner Dataquest will find EMC added to its number one position in SAN revenue in 2000, capturing 38.8% of the worldwide market. Overall, the worldwide SAN market grew to $4.84 billion in 2000, Gartner Dataquest will report. "We believe EMC has extended its lead during the first half of 2001, with SAN revenue growing 49% compared with the first half of 2000, to nearly $1.3 billion," says Ricaud. "It is also clear that EMC is now the world`s number one NAS supplier, based on 2001 results reported to date."
As reported with EMC`s first- and second-quarter financial results, EMC revenue for NAS deployments was $562 million during the first half of 2001, nearly triple the level of the first half of 2000. According to Gartner Dataquest, EMC captured 36.3% of the $1.4 billion NAS market in 2000 (in "enterprise-level" NAS, EMC was number one last year with 48.4% market share).
Roger Cox, Chief Analyst at Gartner Dataquest, says: "Networked external disk storage represents a strategic acquisition that is required to support the competitive health of an organisation. As the industry continues to move to the fabric-attached, information-centric model, vendors will increasingly find that offering a spectrum of networked solutions to customers will not be an option, but a requirement."
In terms of NIS (also referred to by Gartner Dataquest as "Fabric Attached Storage"), EMC provides the connectivity options, guaranteed and tested interoperability, and centralised management of the enterprise information infrastructure - delivering both the independent and integrated SAN, NAS and optical (DWDM) solutions - that customers require.
"Networked information storage is about getting information from where it is to where it needs to be - regardless of connectivity, distance or format," Ricaud adds. "EMC delivers best-of-breed networked information solutions for any customer environment, with by far the greatest degree of open interoperability available. The extent of our market share lead is proof that organisations around the world understand the value of choosing EMC for the management of their most important information assets."
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