EMC Corporation tops IDC rankings

Dubai: EMC Corporation announced on Tuesday at Gitex Technology Week that it has been named the No.1 storage vendor for both revenue and storage capacity shipped in IDC’s Storage User Demand Survey for the first half of 2013, which polls 1,000-plus end-users from around the world.

The survey focuses on analysing current and future deployments of enterprise storage systems for particular data uses ranging from major enterprise applications to various segments of IT infrastructure support.

EMC is recognised as the top storage solution for Microsoft Exchange, Oracle and SAP applications, industry-specific applications, home directories, business intelligence and analytics, virtual desktop infrastructure and virtual servers.

The study estimates that EMC led capacity with 26.3 per cent of the overall external enterprise storage systems terabytes shipped in 2013 first half, and 30.8 per cent revenue share. This is the third consecutive year that EMC has ranked number one in this study, based on these criteria.

In addition to the select data use cases covered, IDC also found that the booming flash market will continue to grow over the next 12 months, with 48 per cent of respondents planning to purchase solid state storage (SSD and/or PCIe flash) in that timeframe. With several widely deployed flash solutions in its portfolio, EMC believes it is poised to help customers leverage flash as part of their overall storage strategy as demand for flash grows.

Natalya Yezhkova, research director at the IDC, said for the third year of the IDC’s Storage User Demand Study, EMC has come out as a leading supplier of external enterprise storage systems with regard to both revenue and capacity for most data use cases covered by the study.

“As enterprise application environments become more complex and the demand for flash grows, IDC analysis demonstrates that EMC is shipping the most storage capacity in support of today’s mission-critical IT needs.”

Jeremy Burton, president for products and marketing at EMC, said: “IT trials and trends don’t change much year over year — but options to address them do. Our portfolio is designed to handle major enterprise apps across a variety of environments, and flash is a very powerful tool that allows EMC to help customers manage these critical challenges.”

— issacjohn@khaleejtimes.com