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Storage Sales Up, Says Gartner: Page 3 of 3

Sun took a steep drop. Its revenue fell 17.9 percent from the previous year, and its market share slipped from 6.7 percent to 5.0 percent despite making a strong marketing push around its new midrange StoreEdge 6920 system (see Sun Sings New Storage Song). “The only weak guy last quarter was Sun,” Cox says. “They continue to struggle.”

Table 1: Worldwide External Disk Storage Revenue for 1Q05 (Millions of U.S. Dollars)

Company 1Q05 Revenue 1Q05 Market Share (%) 1Q04 Revenue 1Q04 Market Share (%) 1Q04-1Q05 Growth (%)
EMC 814.7 23 732.9 23.2 11.2
Hewlett-Packard 643.1 15.9 529.6 16.6 6.2
IBM 421.1 11.9 370.7 11.6 13.6
Hitachi/HDS 368.5 10.4 336.2 10.6 9.6
Dell 231.8 6.6 170.7 5.4 35.8
Network Appliance 211.7 6 166.5 5.2 27.2
Sun Microsystems 175.9 5 213 6.7 -17.4
Others 752.1 21.3 666.3 20.9 12.9
Total 3,538.50 100 3,185.90 100 11.1
Source: Gartner Dataquest (June 2005); estimates

— Dave Raffo, Senior Editor, Byte and Switch