WW Storage Software Up 11% Quarterly, According to IDC
CA and HP no more in top list
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on March 7, 2011 at 3:27 pmAccording to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Storage Software QView, the worldwide storage software market ended the fourth quarter of 2010 with revenues of $3.4 billion. This represented a 10.6% increase over the same quarter one year ago, and marks the fifth consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth for the market.
Full year 2010 sales of storage software increased 10.3% to $12.7 billion, which is a striking contrast to the 3.2% contraction the market experienced in 2009. The storage infrastructure market experienced the highest calendar year growth of 23.6%, which took the functional market to $1.2 billion in total sales. Data protection and recovery remained the largest functional market by a considerable margin. Sales in this market segment surpassed $4.4 billion for the year, which was an increase of 11.2%.
"The storage software market is in the midst of a sustained recovery, which is partly driven by new product innovations, and partly by a strong desire to address inefficiencies related to storing, protecting, and managing corporate data," said Eric Sheppard, research director with IDC’s Storage Software program. "A considerable increase in storage software designed to enable automated storage tiering, coupled with a continued market trend of addressing aging, inefficient storage deployments were two important drivers of market growth during the quarter."
WW Storage Software Revenue
(Revenues are in Millions)
(Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker,
March 2011)
Taxonomy Note:
IDC has updated its storage software taxonomy to reflect changes in the market over the last several years. The storage software taxonomy includes eight functional markets: data protection and recovery, archiving (including email archiving), storage replication, storage management, storage device management, storage infrastructure, file system, and ‘other’.
IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker is a quantitative tool for analyzing the global storage software market. This Tracker counts new license and maintenance revenues quarterly and provides data segmentations by vendor, submarket, functional product family, and region.
Comments
From 3Q10 to 4Q10, growth is 8.4%.
We note that it's the first time that Hitachi is entering in the IDC top
ranking - with an impressive 47% yearly growth - and that CA and HP are
not there as usual and included in "Other", behind the Top 5.
IDC didn't publish the figures for the global year 2010 per company. Using formerly
quarterly results of the research firm, here are our computation:
WW Storage Software Revenue
(Revenues are in Millions)
| 2009 | 2010 | Growth |
|
| 1. EMC |
2,658 | 3,052 | 14.8% |
| 2. Symantec | 2,104 | 2,077 | -1.3% |
| 3. IBM |
1,580 | 1,704 | 7.8% |
| 4. NetApp | 940 | 1,083 | 15.2% |
| Other | 4,443 | 4,603 | 3.6% |
| Total |
11,725 | 12,519 | 6.8% |
"Full year 2010 sales of storage software increased 10.3% to $12.7 billion", said IDC in the today's press release. In our table the figures are respectively 6.8% and $12.5 billion and. Why? IDC has the bad habit to frequently change afterwards its figures for the same quarter, one number when first published, and then another one in the following press releases, for WW software here, but also for WW disk systems.
Nevertheless IDC, with Gartner, are the most reliable sources for the storage software and disk subsystems markets in the world.
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