Friday, April 6, 2012

Market Share Analysis: Network-Attached Storage/Unified Storage, Worldwide, 2011


  • EMC overtook NetApp in 2011 as the No. 1 vendor in terms of overall vendor-branded revenue for network-attached storage (NAS) and unified storage through internal growth (VNX/VNXe and Data Domain) and acquisition (Isilon).
  • NetApp's Data Ontap maintains its No. 1 ranking for NAS/unified storage in terms of technology platform.
  • The estimated "pure NAS" market (excluding the block storage portion of the unified storage market) grew 21.5% in vendor revenue in 2011, much faster than block-based storage arrays because of the NAS support of growing vertical applications and virtualization.
  • The NAS market has become increasingly consolidated with innovative products and vendors acquired by top-tier storage vendors in the past two years.