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Taylor's Take on Sun Storage

My storage team and I focus on three of the most important aspects in any industry: customers, competitors and market trends. There is insight to gain and share in this role, so here is our take on Sun and Storage - Taylor Allis


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Friday Jun 08, 2007

"man it feels good to win"

Sun midrange disk grew 38.6% in revenue Y/Y - and this quote came from an internal e-mail from a Sun Storage Product Director (not surprisingly...)

The number came from IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker results for Q1 CY07 (released two days ago).

I have to give credit to the midrange disk storage team - over the past year they have focused on driving customer value through clear value propositions, vertically focused solutions and training sales and customers on how to benefit from our disk systems.   (It also doesn't hurt to have a product that is the world record holder for the SPC-2 price/performance benchmark - hmmm, why aren't EMC products on this list?)

Some highlights from IDC's report:

  • We showed our 5th straight quarter of Y/Y revenue growth in overall disk systems, growing 7.4%
  • Our midrange disk (classified by Sun as systems priced between $15K - $300K) grew 38.6% in revenue - this is our Sun StorageTek 6000 family, and specifically, the 6540 did very well
  • Sun retained the #1 Worldwide position in UNIX disk units shipped - for the for the 14th consecutive quarter (And seeing how Horison Information Strategies reports that today, 47% of the world's data is generated by a UNIX OS - this isn't a bad position to hold...)
So, thank you to our Disk team, but most importantly, thank you to our customers for seeing, and investing, in the value of Sun Disk Systems...

 

Posted at 10:58AM Jun 08, 2007 by Taylor Allis in Storage Intelligence  |  Comments[0]

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