By Stephen Lawson – The systems shipped in the quarter added up to 5,429 petabytes, up 30.7 percent from a year earlier. In the second quarter, it had grown by 46.7 percent from a year earlier.
Enterprise storage revenue totaled $7.6 billion in the quarter, of which EMC took 21.7 percent. Revenue for external disk storage, a figure that excludes disks located inside servers, increased 10.8 percent to just under $5.8 billion. EMC expanded its share of that market to 28.9 percent from 25.9 percent a year earlier, according to IDC.
In the external storage market, EMC’s closest rival was IBM, with a 12.7 percent share, statistically tied with NetApp, which grew its share to 12.1 percent. more> http://tinyurl.com/7qn53hv
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