Storage Systems Market Reaches $9.4 Billion in 1Q15

Cloud Service Provider Architecture Purchasing Trends Driving Robust Growth of Smaller Vendors

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Jun 09, 2015, 09:03 ET

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 9, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- A recently published report from Dell'Oro Group, the trusted source for market information about the telecommunications, networks, and data center information technology (IT) industries, revealed that the overall storage systems market reached $9.4 billion, down 3% Y/Y. External storage systems declined 1% Y/Y on unit growth over 7% Y/Y.

"The architecture of the data center is experiencing rapid changes, which in turn are changing the face of the storage industry. In the report, our research shows high unit growth of Direct Attached Storage and accelerated growth of White Box storage are indications that cloud service providers are adopting a different storage architecture than the one used by enterprises," explained Chris DePuy, Vice President at Dell'Oro Group. "The largest six external storage systems vendors, who are not participating fully in the cloud trend, experienced 7% Y/Y revenue declines, while all others, which include startups, white box vendors and new entrants grew 33% Y/Y."

Total capacity shipped in the quarter grew 20% Y/Y. The top six vendors in the overall storage market in 1Q15 were, in share order: EMC, HP, Dell, NetApp, Hitachi and IBM.

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The Dell'Oro Group Quarterly Storage Systems Report provides complete, in-depth coverage of the market with tables covering manufacturers' revenue, units shipped and average selling prices for Internal and External Storage types, as well as Capacity metrics. For External Storage Systems architecture metrics such Network Integration; Retrieval Method; Communication Protocol, as well as Ports (1 GE; 10 GE; 40 GE; 100 GE; ≤8 Gbps FC; 16 Gbps FC; ≥32 Gbps FC) are provided. To purchase this report, please contact Matt Dear at +1.650.622.9400 x233 or email [email protected].

About Dell'Oro Group

Dell'Oro Group is a market research firm that specializes in strategic competitive analysis in the telecommunications, networks, and data center IT markets. Our firm provides in-depth quantitative data and qualitative analysis that enables business executives at equipment vendors, component manufacturers, service providers, investment firms and other leading organizations around the world, to make critical, fact-based business decisions. We have earned the reputation of being the trusted source for market research. For more information, contact Dell'Oro Group at +1.650.622.9400 or visit www.delloro.com.

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