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External storage market up 5.1% in 2004
External storage market generated $15.5 bln in 2004 and grew by 5.
External storage market generated $15.5 bln in 2004 and grew by 5.1% compared to 2003 revenues, according to Gartner. Network Appliance and Dell demonstrated the most impressive growth numbers, while EMC remained the market leader.
| Worldwide external controller-based disk storage vendor revenue estimates for 2004 | |||||
| Vendor | 2004 Revenue | 2004 Market share | 2003 Revenue | 2003 Market share | 2003-2004 Growth |
| mln | mln | ||||
| EMC | $3,063.6 | 22.6% | $2,652.0 | 20.6% | 15.5% |
| Hewlett-Packard | $2,240.1 | 16.5% | $2,394.2 | 18.6% | -6.4% |
| IBM | $1,631.9 | 12.0% | $1,712.1 | 13.3% | -4.7% |
| Hitachi/HDS | $1,181.7 | 8.7% | $1,166.9 | 9.1% | 1.3% |
| Sun Microsystems | $851.4 | 6.3% | $881.0 | 6.8% | -3.4% |
| Dell | $782.8 | 5.8% | $634.2 | 4.9% | 23.4% |
| Network Appliance | $737.1 | 5.4% | $586.9 | 4.6% | 25.6% |
| StorageTek | $162.4 | 1.2% | $136.8 | 1.1% | 18.7% |
| Others | $2,893.4 | 21.4% | $2,725.0 | 21.1% | 6.2% |
| Total | $13,544.5 | 100% | $12,889.0 | 100% | 5.1% |
| Source: Gartner Dataquest | |||||