Sun Outpaces All Major Vendors in Fast Growing Disk Storage Systems Market
Strong growth for Sun Storage... and our disk systems that are the foundation of Open Storage. Leading analyst firms are reporting significant quarterly growth for Sun disk sales, with both IDC and Gartner issuing news releases highlighting Sun's achievements. In releasing its Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker for Q2 CY08,
IDC reports that the External Disk Storage Systems market saw the largest growth rate in two years at 16.7% year-over-year. Sun had nearly triple the growth rate of the overall market in total revenue (29.2% vs. 10.9%), and realized growth at a double-digit pace year-over-year in total revenue, terabytes and units shipped. In a press release, Gartner recognized increased sales in our 2000, 6000 and 9000 series as contributing to the highest growth year-over-year in the worldwide external controller-based disk storage market. Sun's Jason Schaffer, senior director, storage product management, says the "results demonstrate that Sun's unique and open approach to storage is fast gaining acceptance with those that matter most – our customers.” Link here for more details.
