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Storage Systems Slip 7% In Q2 2013
Storage Systems Highlights The market falls 7% to $6.8B in the quarter and by 4% to $28.3B in the year to the end of June Shipments of arrays also fall 7% to 138k Installed Base grows 1% to 2.0M EMC...
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Emulex – A Strategy For Great IT Migrations
Emulex Highlights Introduces Gen 5 FC Flash Services technology products running at 16GFC CrossLink addresses the growth of East/West traffic with the use of vMotion ExpressLane helps with QoS and...
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Storage Systems Decline Another 5% In Q3 2013
Storage Highlights Storage Systems decline 4.7% to $6.6B in Q3 2013 and by 4.8% to $27.9B in the year Disk drives fall 4.6% to $11.3B and by 0.3% to $45.1B Flash drives growth by 13.8% to $1.5B and by...
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Computer Devices – ARM Chips In 84% of 1.8B Units
Computer Device Highlights In the year to the end of September 2013 1.8B computer devices shipped $620B revenue made The installed base reached 4.6B Phones accounted for 71% of the units, 48% of value...
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Storage Systems worth $27.9B in 2013 – but I’d rather buy Disk
Storage 2013 Highlights Storage systems decline 4% to $27.9B EMC leads with a 24.2% share Drives down 5% to $57.7B Western Digital leads with a 26.5% share Disk down 6% to $45.2B NAND up 19% to $4.5B...
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NetApp Steers for the Cloud
NetApp Cloud Highlights Has adapted its strategy, moving from being a horizontal to integrated system player Focuses its strategy on the Cloud – introducing Dynamic Data Portability Has a strong and...
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Storage Systems Revenues Decline 6% to $6.5B in Q1 2014
In our rapid review of all areas of IT and Communications, it’s important to look at storage – especially as Big Data Analytics is such a huge mega theme for so many suppliers. I’m afraid that we found...
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Dell at 30 – Plans Disruption, grows Share
Dell Highlights Michael wants Dell to have the role of disrupter and democratiser of technology It has improved its market shares in PC, Server It embraces Software Defined approaches to Storage and...
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Storage Systems down 2.3%, NAND up 16.3% in Q2 2014
Not everything in the ITC garden was rosy in Q2 according to our on-going research. Storage system revenues declined by 2.3% to $6.6b, while storage drive (disk, NAND and optical) revenues declined by...
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Storage systems down 15.2% in Q3 2015
Those of you who are encouraged by the strength of the server market will be depressed to see that the storage systems market is down again – this time by 15.2% in the quarter to $6.8b and by 11.7% in...
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Storage systems down 5% in 2015
Changes in storage systems are paramount in the development of modern datacentre computing – and yet the market continues to perform badly badly. The downturn in 2015 was 10.5%, making it the fourth...
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Fujitsu Announces The Eternus CS800 S4 And Reseller Agreement With Violin Memory
Here at the Powering The Cloud conference in Frankfurt Fujitsu announced today two important additions to its storage systems strategy. Fujitsu’s 2 announcements are: It has introduced a new version...
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SolidFire – Quality Of Service For Multi-Tenanted Storage
SolidFire Highlights This is a different approach – storage redesigned to deliver predictable performance and guaranteed QoS within a multi-tenant infrastructure A storage start-up with $37 million...
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HP EMEA Strategy Balances The Challenges Of New And Old
HP EMEA Highlights Overall revenues dropped 7% to €8 Billion Led the server, second in enterprise network and third in storage system markets in 2012 At a product and country level the decline in old...
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IBM Edge 2016 – balancing systems and cloud services
I flew into Las Vegas from Heathrow yesterday, arriving in a much warmer – but still Summer-ending – climate. Goodness knows how many attendees there are here, where IBM is taking up the conference...
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Storage 2017 – growth at last!
In our digital world the most important asset for most organisations and individuals is information, which we hold and process as data in a huge variety of storage devices. However spending on storage...
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Storage – the raw v system dichotomy
Worldwide manufacturing of IT and communications equipment has a massive – and growing – bias towards Asia Pacific, so it’s hardly surprising that the region generates a lot more revenues for the...
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Storage markets surge in Q1 2018
Storage systems revenue grew in Q1 by 4% to $7.8b and by 5% to $33b for the year to the end of March. However raw storage did better with disk drive revenues growing by 7% to $14.7b (by 9% to $63.0b...
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