Momentum Continues in External Disk Storage Systems Market During the First Quarter of 2007, According to IDC
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Worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues grew $239  million in the first quarter of 2007 (1Q07), posting 5.9% growth from a  year ago to $4.3 billion, according to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk  Storage Systems Tracker.
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Well, it grew a bit, says IDC Research house IDC reckons the worldwide storage market reached $4.8bn last year - a six per cent growth on last year.â¦
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Worldwide shipments of personal computers grew 13.7 percent in the fourth quarter on strong demand from small- and medium-sized businesses and holiday shoppers, IDC reported Tuesday.
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EMC&#39;s Asian operations are back on track after sluggish growth during early 2006, and the company aims to take Asian market share away from rivals and push into new market segments.&quot;We went from worst to first,&quot; said Steve Leonard, president of Asia-Pacific and Japan, explaining that Asia went from being EMC&#39;s slowest-growing region in 2006 to its fastest in 2007.EMC&#39;s Asia-Pacific revenue grew 24 percent during 2007, hitting $1.46 billion. By comparison, revenue from Asia grew by just 6 percent during 2006, which was lower than previous years and far slower than EMC&#39;s growth in other regions during that period.Gartner and IDC pegged Asian storage revenue growth at around 23 percent during the third quarter, the most recent period for which figures are available.&quot;We see EMC very well placed as a storage vendor in Asia,&quot; said Avneesh Saxena, group vice president of systems, storage, and software research at IDC Asia-Pacific, citing EMC&#39;s improved channel relationships and &quot;software-driven approach&quot; to developing storage products. &quot;They aren&#39;t just selling boxes,&quot; he said.Even so, taking storage market share away from rivals won&#39;t necessarily be easy for EMC, Saxena said, noting IBM and Hewlett-Packard are firmly entrenched in key Asian markets.EMC&#39;s turnaround&#160;is largely a credit to Leonard, who was hired in 2006 and given the job of transforming its Asian operations.Getting the company back on track in Asia involved a variety of steps, including shaking up the company&#39;s sales teams and building stronger ties with channel partners. EMC also embarked on an aggressive expansion in India and China to spur growth in these markets and tap into the vast pools of engineering talent there.&quot;We effectively had zero software-engineering capabilities resident in China during the summer of 2006. I was just up in Beijing and we are going to hire our 1,000th engineer this quarter,&quot; Leonard said.Looking ahead, EMC is counting on new products that tap user demand for information storage, content-management capabilities, and security to spur further revenue growth in Asia. In a break with EMC&#39;s traditional sales focus on large corporations and organizations, the company also plans to expand into new markets, offering storage products and services for small business and even consumers.At the top end of the market, EMC hopes to generate more sales with a line of flash memory-based drives, announced last month, designed to replace some disk drives in the company&#39;s Symmetrix storage arrays.&quot;EMC is in a very high innovation cycle right now. It&#39;s been bringing more things out to the market than at any moment in its history,&quot; Leonard said.While the woes of early 2006 are now history for EMC, the company still faces challenges in Asia. In particular, Japan remains a difficult market.EMC is working to improve its Japanese operations, but it will take time for these efforts to yield the desired results, Leonard said, calling the company&#39;s transformation there a &quot;work in progress.&quot;&quot;We&#39;ve had dozens and dozens of meetings with executives from leading Japanese companies, essentially to say, &#39;We&#39;re committed to being a better local company, we&#39;re asking for your support,&quot; he said.As part of these efforts, EMC turned to sport to help raise its profile in Japan. The Massachusetts-based company is sponsoring the Boston Red Sox baseball team&#39;s upcoming March visit to Japan and will use the occasion to woo prospective customers and partners. Baseball is very popular in Japan and Red Sox pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka is a celebrity in his home country, where he played professionally for several years.&#160;
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Content security gateway vendors big and small are performing very well, leading the worldwide market to a sequential 9% gain in the first quarter of 2007, nearing $352 million, reports Infonetics Research in its latest "Content Security Appliances and Software" report.
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IBRIXÂ®, the leader in  scalable file serving solutions, has been selected as the winner in the  Data Management category for the 2007 MITX Technology Awards.
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IDC projects that worldwide PC shipments will increase by 16.7% in the fourth quarter of this year, bolstered by the strong laptop sales.
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The disk storage market in Central and Eastern Europe (Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Russia, and Slovakia) grew by 22.5% in revenue to $418.10 million in 2003 and is expected to expand a further ...
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Small continues to be the big thing, as Hewlett-Packard Co has launched a Windows-powered disk array tailored for use by SMBs and stressed that this is still the growth sector in storage.
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By 2012, disk drives will surpass tape cartridges in external capacity, according to the figures from Enterprise Strategy Group
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(InfoWorld) - Hitachi hopes to win market share from rival Toshiba with three new high-capacity hard drives that will reach the digital video recording and automotive navigation markets in 2007. Hitachi will announce new versions of its CinemaStar and Endurastar drives on Friday at the IFA international consumer electronics show in Berlin. The drives are designed for high-end consumer electronics platforms built by third-party vendors. The company hopes these products will be a business success, since their sales in consumer electronics devices have been growing faster than sales for the traditional IT markets of laptop and desktop PCs, said Marcia Bencala, vice president for product strategy and planning at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. Hitachi claims that its CinemaStar C5K160 will be the industry's smallest size DVR (digital video recorder) disk at 2.5-inches diameter, and that its Endurastar J4K50 and N4K50 will be the largest capacity automotive disks at 50GB. Indeed, these high-capacity drives could act as halo products for Hitachi, enticing customers to buy more mid-range drives as well, said Nicole D'Onofrio, a storage analyst with Current Analysis. "Desktop drives continue to be the bread and butter for hard drive manufacturers, but we're increasingly seeing mobile devices accounting for more sales, and now consumer electronics and automotive," D'Onofrio said. HitachiÂ used perpendicular recording technologyÂ to fit dense storage on its 2.5-inch diameter CinemaStar disk, much smaller than the standard 3.5-inch size used in digital video players. That allows designers of DVRs, portable video players and DVR-enabled televisions to build slimmer products without sacrificing high capacity; 160GB are enough to store 57 movies or 40,000 four-minute songs. Hitachi supplies nearly the entire market for high-end 400GB and 500GB recording disks. The company hopes the new CinemaStar will help it increase its share of the market for smaller-capacity disks, which stands at around 20 percent for 80GB and 160GB disks. Leaders of that segment include Seagate Technology, Western Digital, Fujitsu, and Samsung Electronics. Hitachi plans to reach full volume production of its 160GB CinemaStar C5K160 disk (also available in 80GB and 40GB) by the second quarter of 2007. That means customers could be buying DVRs using Hitachi disks by Christmas 2007, said Bill Healy, senior vice president of corporate strategy and marketing at Hitachi. Hitachi's other new products, the Endurastar J4K50 and N4K50, are designed to be rugged enough to withstand automotive vibration and temperature swings while offering enough capacity for applications like navigation, digital music and audio books. Hitachi did not name the vehicle manufacturers that would use the disks, but such features are commonly found in luxury cars like the Mercedes-Benz and Lexus. Hitachi hopes to improve its 20 percent market share in a huge automotive market that produced 64 million cars and light trucks in 2005. The demand for hard drives in those cars is expected to grow at 38 percent per year from 2005 to 2010, Healy said. The company will reach full production of its 50GB Endurastar J4K50 and N4K50 (also available in 40GB and 30GB) by the first quarter of 2007.
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The Michael Dell reformation strategy evidently paid off for his company in the last quarter of the year, according to the first numbers from IDC. Market share has stopped falling, and shipment growth is finally outpacing the average.
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One-inch media storage drive marks a step forward for convergence of mobile devices.
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Higher-capacity hard drives will be available by the end of the year.
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I find Hitachi's decision to launch an external hard drive now an interesting choice: After all, the market is crowded with external hard drives, including 500GB models priced at under $150.
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EMC Corp. claims it has hit over 1,000 users and shipped more than 30 petabytes (30,000 TB) of storage capacity since the introduction of its Centera product in April 2002.
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Drives in PCs and media centres from 2005