Sun Microsystems SA shipped a record number of disk storage systems in its last two financial quarters. This is in line with a recent IDC announcement that Sun is the fastest growing vendor in this segment of the industry globally.
"We've excelled in SA," says Kobus Landsberg, systems engineer at Sun Microsystems in SA.
"Over the past two quarters we have shipped a record 55 terabytes between Q3Y02 and Q4Y02 (Jan - June 2002) to local users. Sun's long-term storage strategy and working side by side with best-of-breed storage partners such as Hitachi Data Systems is paying dividends and we are now perceived as a company with a strong storage strategy and product set," says Landsberg.
According to an IDC September 2002 report, Sun is the only company to experience double-digit growth in significant revenue, capacity and systems shipped under categories including all operating systems as well as Unix, open systems and SAN revenue.
The report also indicates that Sun was number one in worldwide Unix revenue and that Sun's storage revenue grew 30 times faster than the overall storage market in Q2 2002.
These rankings and Sun's storage achievements can be attributed to the strong line of integrated products and services such as the Sun StorEdge storage systems and Sun's leading Complete Storage Solutions.
"IDC's recent report is a validation that Sun StorEdge Complete Storage Solutions are gaining marketshare faster than any other company as customers move to Sun for an end-to-end solution," says Mark Canepa, executive vice-president for Sun Storage.
"Sun Storage is growing at the expense of competitors due to our ability to offer a complete end-to-end IT infrastructure for the entire enterprise. I'm proud of the outstanding execution from the team."
Sun is the only vendor to gain or maintain its ranking in major revenue, capacity and systems shipped in IDC categories. In many instances Sun maintained its ranking and gained market share, while all key competitors lost share in at least one category.
IDC also indicated strong improvement for Sun in the worldwide open systems category for both disk storage systems revenue and terabytes shipped. This category includes storage that is attached to servers running Unix, Linux, Windows 2000 or other network operating systems, such as Novell.
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