EMC Named Leader In Storage Software Market
Posted on: Wednesday, 11 March 2009, 08:30 CDT
Breadth of Storage Software Helps Extend EMC's Leadership Position
In addition to leading the overall storage software market for the full year of 2008, EMC also led in three storage software categories - storage replication, storage device management and storage management. In the storage device management software segment in 2008, EMC grew revenue more than six times the revenue share of its closest competitor. In addition, EMC grew revenue more than 20%, year-over-year, in the data protection and recovery software segment for the full year, outpacing the market and all of the top four competitors.
According to EMC, the company achieved 11% annual growth in software license and maintenance revenue during 2008, when combining its storage software market leadership and other areas of software leadership like virtualization, enterprise content management and archive, resource management and information security. Software made up approximately 40% of EMC's overall revenue for 2008.
"EMC continues to show the strength and breadth in its storage software portfolio by again leading the overall market," said BJ Jenkins, EMC's Senior Vice President, Global Marketing. "In 2008, we were able to deliver new and updated software functionality that helped customers lower costs, simplify the management of expanding environments, meet new data protection requirements and control explosive data growth. We continued to expand our broad software support for virtual environments by adding functionality in the areas of backup, data deduplication, replication and resource management. Additionally, we continued to expand key integration points between EMC storage software and hardware products in 2008, helping customers with turnkey solutions that drive efficiency, mitigate risk and reduce total cost of ownership."
Additionally, EMC announced on
[a] Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker,
[b] Source: IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker,
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