IDC releases global disk storage System Market tracking report

The IDC tracking report says global disk storage System vendor revenues reached about $8.8 billion trillion in the third quarter of 2014, up 5.1% per cent year-on-year. Capacity shipments were 25 bytes, and capacity shipments rose 42% from a year earlier.

Eric Sheppard, director of IDC Storage research, said: "The third-quarter storage market highlights a lot, high-capacity server storage drives internal storage revenue growth of 10%, while less than 100,000 U.S. dollars of external storage array revenue growth of 6%." But the biggest market impact comes from the storage systems that Original equipment manufacturers (ODM) sell directly to large data centers. Revenue from this partially completed or partially built storage system increased by 22% in the quarter, accounting for 43% of total consumer capacity. ”

Overall disk storage System results for the third quarter of 2014

EMC maintains the lead in the global disk storage System market, followed by Hewlett-Packard, with a market share of 20.8% and 14.6% respectively. It is important to note that the IDC Global disk storage System Tracking report added the ODM, the overall market size has increased, so the share also changes, but the rankings are not affected.

The top five manufacturers of global disk storage System markets in the third quarter of 2014

Source: IDC Global Disk Storage System quarterly tracking report, December 5, 2014

Open Network Disk storage System Highlights

Open networked disk storage markets, including NAS and non-large sans, grew to 5.1 billion dollars, up 2.1% from a year earlier. EMC continues to dominate the open networked storage market with a revenue share of 34.1%, and NetApp is second in 14.7% market share.

2014 results of the third quarter external disk storage System

This quarter EMC was the largest external storage system vendor, accounting for 31.4% of global external storage system sales, up 30.6%, a year ago. NetApp ranked second in the 12.9% market share. IBM and Hewlett-Packard in the quarter's performance in the statistical sense is "tied" third, respectively, 10.2% and 9.7%. Hitachi and Dell are "tied" fifth in statistical sense.

2014 Q3 Global External disk storage System Market Top 5 vendors (million units)

Source: IDC Global Disk Storage System quarterly tracking report, December 5, 2014

ODM Direct Storage System Introduction

The transformation of the original design manufacturer (ODM) has made it possible to design, procure, and/or deploy new storage architectures for Web services and large data center cloud services providers, while the traditional it original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) are less involved. This trend has been expanding over the past five years, and many cloud services providers now offer a range of workloads that are compatible with internally deployed servers, including web, mobile, large data/analytics, and social-collaborative competition. The impact of this growing market impact on the overall storage market, which is why IDC started tracking the ODM direct system.