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So often, I talk about industry directions and future scenarios. That's to be expected, but my view is built on decent understanding of what the marketplace looks like today. IDC just released their storage market estimates for 2012 -- both Q4 and for the full year. As I was going through the numbers, it struck me that many people might not have a high-level appreciation of how big the market is, what the major categories might be, and so on. Although EMC continues to do very well as you might expect, this post isn't really about taking yet another victory lap -- it's more about drawing the broader picture of the storage industry as it stands today. Consider it Storage Marketplace 101? Before We Begin All data here comes from the most recent IDC Worldwide Disk Storage Systems market estimate report. I'll make this easy: in my opinion the IDC numbers have proven themselves to be the best numbers out there in terms of accuracy and useful segmentations. EMC, for example, doesn't give IDC any data other than what's publicly available, but their numbers tend to sync very well with our internal ones over the years. Their models are very... |
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