EMC named leader in storage software market for 7th consecutive year

Additionally, EMC was among the five fastest growing data protection and recovery vendors in year-over-year revenue growth, nearly tripling the market growth rate during the fourth quarter. 1,2

For both the full year and the fourth quarter of 2006, EMC led in four storage software categories, including storage replication, storage device management, storage infrastructure and storage management. In the storage device management software segment in 2006, EMC grew revenue to almost seven times the revenue share of its closest competitor. According to EMC, the company achieved 20% annual growth in software license and maintenance revenue during 2006, when combining its storage software market leadership and other areas of software leadership like virtualization, enterprise content management and archive, resource management and information security.

At the same time, EMC was the top provider of external disk storage systems for the ninth consecutive year in 2006, according to the latest IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, March 2007.

In addition to being number one in revenue and capacity shipped in the external disk storage systems market for 2006, EMC extended its revenue share lead over its three largest competitors and outpaced the overall market's revenue growth. Sales of EMC and co-branded EMC/Dell external disk storage systems accounted for one-third of the overall growth of the entire external storage systems market, according to researchers.

"The Middle East and North Africa region's storage market is developing at an exponential rate that is mirrored by EMC's own growth in this region. Our customers continually look for ways to drive their information lifecycle management strategies and strengthen their information infrastructures," said Mohammed Amin, Area Manager for EMC Middle East & North Africa.

"Our ongoing leadership in storage software and hardware systems will allow us to address the information management challenges of our regional clients regardless of their size or industry, while alleviating our customers' IT complexities, better leveraging their existing storage resources and improving their backup, recovery and archival of information," Amin added.