Gartner released the latest market share figures for external, fabric-attached, IP SANs and network-attached storage at its Storage Summit in Orlando this week.
According to Roger Cox, research vice president for Gartner, EMC led the external controller-based storage market with a 23.5% market share. HP followed in second with 14.8% and IBM trailed in third with 14.5% market share.
Hitachi Data Systems, Dell, Network Appliance, Sun and Fujitsu Siemens followed these leaders with single-digit market share percentages.
In fabric-attached storage – those arrays that connect to a Fibre Channel storage-area network – EMC again led with a 26.5% market share. EMC was followed again by HP with 19.1% and IBM with 12.1%.
IP storage – arrays that connect to the Gigabit Ethernet network via the iSCSI block-based protocol – showed the most surprising results. Network Appliance led EMC with a 45.4% market share. EMC’s IP storage arrays accounted for a 22.3% market share. HP and Dell followed with single-digit market share percentages.
In NAS, Network Appliance squired a 55.9% market share, followed by EMC with 12.9%.
