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Affected by the global economic
downturn, the external controller-based (ECB) disk storage market
experienced an 8.6 percent YoY decline from $18 billion in 2008 to
$16.3 billion in 2009, according to Gartner. This is the first annual
decline for the market since 2002. All regions experienced a drop in
revenue in 2009, and the most affected regions were Japan, Latin
America, Europe, the Middle-East and Africa.
The
disk storage market in India
experienced a revenue decline of 18.6 percent YoY from $229.7 million
in 2008 to $187.1 million in 2009. The economic downturn impacted
India during Q4 '08 and lasted till Q3 '09. “The severity of the
impact was different for different verticals. For example investments
within the telecom segment continued unabated. The ITeS segment, the
second largest vertical for storage, made very few investments.
Storage efficiency and better utilization of existing infrastructure
were critical priority areas for a number of CIOs,” said Aman
Munglani, Principal Analyst at Gartner.
“The large monolithic/frame-based
disk array market declined 21.1 percent, and for the first time since
Gartner has been reporting on the ECB disk storage market, this
segment represented less than 30 percent of the total market,” said
Roger Cox, VP-Research, Gartner. He further said, “This result,
in part, reflects the advancements that the lower-cost modular disk
array systems have made in performance and capacity scalability, as
well as robust data services associated with local and remote
replication.”
Reflecting the increase in unstructured
data and file sharing consolidation, the network-attached storage
(NAS) market segment increased 1.4 percent in 2009, while the
block-access modular ECB disk storage segment declined 2.8 percent
and the special purpose disk archiving system segment fell 31.6
percent in revenue. YoY raw terabyte shipments grew only 39.1 percent
in 2009, and the price per terabyte decreased 34.3 percent within
historic trends. EMC retained the top spot in 2009, in part because
of its leadership in the monolithic/frame-based, block access modular
disk array and special-purpose disk archiving storage systems markets
and the acquisition of data domain.