IDC : Total Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Factory Revenue Rises 5.1% In Q3

(RTTNews) - Total worldwide disk storage systems factory revenue grew 5.1% year over year to nearly $8.8 billion during the third quarter of 2014, according to the International Data Corporation or IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. Total disk storage systems capacity shipped was 25 exabytes. New capacity shipments grew 42% year over year during the quarter.

In the total worldwide disk storage systems market, EMC finished in the top position followed by HP with market shares of 20.8% and 14.6% respectively. It should be noted that the addition of ODM Direct to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker has increased the size of the total market and thus changed relative shares, though rankings were not impacted.

EMC was the largest external storage systems supplies during the quarter with 31.4% of worldwide sales, up from 30.6% one year ago. NetApp was the number 2 vendor in the external disk storage systems market with 12.9% share in the third-quarter of 2014. IBM and HP finished the quarter in a statistical tie* for the number 3 position with market shares of 10.2% and 9.7%, respectively. Hitachi and Dell also ended 3Q14 in a statistical tie* for the number 5 position.