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posted on 30 June 2008 06:26

Dell's surge in storage sales has continued with it claiming the number one position in open systems storage sales by revenue and the number one slot in iSCSI storage sales as well.

In the Gartner "Quarterly Statistics: Disk Array Storage, All Regions, All Countries" report of June 6, Dell is given a 20.4 percent of the open systems (Windows/Linux) external world-wide disk array storage market with $422 million in revenue. Its closest competitor, thought to be EMC, claimed 18.5 percent share and $384 million in revenue. Dell’s external controller-based storage revenue increased 21 percent year-over-year.

Dell also gained share in iSCSI-based SANs to take the number one position with more than twice the revenue of the next leading vendor¹. Thank you EqualLogic.

Darren Thomas, Dell Enterprise Storage VP and GM, said: “We believe taking the lead in the Windows/Linux external storage market is significant. ... This is the high-growth segment, and we plan to continue demonstrating leadership throughout our entire family of storage systems, including PowerVault, Dell/EMC and EqualLogic.”

Dell shipped over 116 petabytes in external disk storage for Windows/Linux servers in Q1, representing 95 percent of the total of 122 petabytes of external disk storage Dell ships each quarter¹.

Thomas said, as he would: “That is an astounding amount of storage capacity.” Dell ships more than an estimated 288 petabytes of total disk storage each week within all of its products – including servers, desktops, laptops and enterprise storage systems.

In the Gartner study it was reported that the worldwide market for external controller-based storage grew 10.2% in 1Q08 compared with 1Q07. Revenue for block external controller-based storage grew 9.2%. EMC maintained its lead with 24.1% market share.

^{1. Source Gartner, Inc. "Quarterly Statistics: Disk Array Storage, All Regions, All Countries" by Robin Burke et al., June 6, 2008.}

^{[Paul Roberts, news editor.]}