EMC, expanding share in the

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storage systems market

Continued to the preceding year and that the market share which exceeds the rival is guaranteed, it announced that it had become clear by the up-to-date report of Dataquest.

In the same report, the share of EMC expands to 34.6%, says that 3 times that or more of the market share which the other supplier acquires were acquired. Because of this, the sale share of EMC in the external RAID storage market, Compaq, IBM and Hewlett Packard (HP), of the sun 2 years continuing the total value of 4 shares micro systems, means to exceed.

According to the investigation of Compaq of share 2nd rank has acquired 10.8% share of the only 2 columns other than EMC. In addition as for share of the Hitachi data systems (HDS) with 3.7%, as for ranking you call 8th rank.

In addition, in the external storage systems market for major server vendor 4 operating systems, it acquires the market share of the top with you call EMC. The 38.6% of HP, with OS/390, it has become the 29% of IBM vis-a-vis the 48.5% of EMC with Solaris, vis-a-vis the 43.1% of EMC 30.9% of the sun, with Windows NT/2000, vis-a-vis the 31.9% of EMC the Compaq 24.9%, with HP-UX, vis-a-vis the 45% of EMC.

In addition, for the Linux market, we have assumed even with the external storage system that top share was guaranteed.