EMC capitalised on its ability to provide solutions that manage NAS and SAN environments, both together and independently, and extended its number one position in networked storage systems and software during 2001.
According to a report issued by Gartner Dataquest, EMC led the Fabric Attached Storage (FAS) market by 22.9% in 2001 with 43.3% revenue share. The analyst firm defines FAS as both SAN (storage area network) and NAS (network-attached storage) implementations.
The industry`s first independent storage systems market share research using actual full-year 2001 results revealed total FAS market revenue grew 21.6% to $7.6 billion in 2001. EMC also grew its SAN lead in 2001 to 41.9% revenue share, and for the first time, EMC led the total NAS market with 48.5% revenue share in 2001.
"EMC began investing heavily in both NAS and SAN technology in the middle of the last decade, and today the results of our early commitment are clear. EMC was the only company to achieve double-digit revenue share in both the SAN and NAS segments," says Gerhard van der Merwe, district manager of EMC SA.
Roger W Cox, chief analyst at Gartner Dataquest, says: "NAS and SAN are converging into block and file capable fabric-attached storage. Managing this fabric in a single consolidated application is extremely important. We believe that 70% of all storage will be fabric attached by the middle of this decade."
According to Gartner Dataquest, EMC led the total external RAID controller-based storage market in 2001 with 25.3% revenue share. EMC also led the external RAID controller-based storage market for both Unix and Windows NT/2000, with 28% and 28.3% revenue shares, respectively. External RAID controller-based storage revenue for Unix and Windows NT/2000 represented a combined 73.9% of the total external RAID controller-based storage market in 2001.
In March, Gartner Dataquest reported that EMC widened its revenue lead as the world`s number one provider of storage management software with 30.4% revenue share in 2001. The findings revealed that EMC also led the Storage Resource Management (SRM) software segment with 43.5% revenue share. SRM software is focused on providing management to various resources on the storage network and includes products that provide data collection and automation agents to consolidate information from multiple server, storage and network platforms.
Carolyn DiCenzo, chief analyst of storage management software for Gartner Dataquest, says: "The move to fabric attached storage, with the added storage networking components and the sharing of storage resources among servers, applications and business units, had increased the management complexity. This has resulted in greater demand for resource management products that allow for central administration and automated management of a network`s storage resources."
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