IBM India today announced that according to newly released data from IDC* the company has emerged number one in revenue for fourth quarter (Q4) and full year 2010 in the India external disk storage systems.
According to the IDC report, IBM maintained its 2010 leadership with a 26.2% market share, in revenue terms, and over 4% points lead over its nearest competitor. In addition, in Q4 2010 IBM maintained leadership with a 29% market share and a 7% point lead over its nearest competitor, in revenue terms. The IDC report states the overall External Disk storage market in India declined 1.5% in CY 2010
The launch of a series of powerful IBM systems in 2010, including the IBM StorwizeV7000® and the IBM System Storage® DS8000®, helped to strengthen the company’s leadership position in the market. The StorwizeV7000 is designed to dramatically improve storage efficiency and costs while providing clients exceptional ease of use and performance in a midrange package. Meanwhile, the IBM System Storage DS8000 offers high-performance, high-capacity; secure storage systems that are designed to deliver the highest levels of performance, flexibility, scalability, resiliency and total overall value for the most demanding, heterogeneous storage environments. These launches mark significant storage innovations that IBM has delivered through R&D in just a year, joining IBM's Scale-out Network Attached Storage (SONAS), IBM Information Archive, the IBM Long Term File System (LTFS) and IBM Easy Tier. These systems are evidence of IBM’s strategy to share its most innovative storage technologies across its portfolio.
*Source: IDC’s Asia/Pacific Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, Q4 2010, March 2011 release
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