According to the latest IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, March 2012, EMC Corporation remains the leading provider of external disk storage systems for the fifteenth consecutive year in factory revenue. Additionally, EMC ended 2011 with more than 2X the revenue, and captured more than 2X the market share of the next closest vendors between 2010 and 2011. During the same period, EMC grew revenue at more than 2X the full market rate. In the fourth quarter of 2011, EMC grew worldwide external disk storage systems revenue by 22.4%, and gained 3.5 points of market share over the fourth quarter of 2010. The next two closest vendors were IBM, which lost 1.2 points, and NetApp, which gained less than one point of market share.
EMC attributes this growth and sustaining leadership to delivering a range of new storage technologies and global adoption of EMC's best-of-breed storage portfolio, helping customers transform their IT infrastructures and maximize today's market opportunities in cloud computing, Big Data, virtualization, and next-generation backup.
"EMC's vision, strategy, and roadmap is in lock-step with two of the biggest trends in technology-cloud and Big Data," said Pat Gelsinger, President & Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products. "EMC continues to invest, innovate and deliver technologies that help customers store, manage, protect, analyze and secure their information. We are committed to helping customers improve business agility, lower costs and enhance their competitive advantage - within traditional data centers, virtual data centers, and cloud-based IT infrastructures."
