EMC extends storage software revenue lead for 7th consecutive quarter

#1 EMC had 30.6% revenue share in the second quarter, widening its storage software lead to more than 10 share points and growing revenue nearly twice as fast as the closest competitor on a year-over-year basis.

"EMC's storage software is the glue that enables our customers, including the Middle East's leading organizations, to reduce the cost and complexity associated with managing their often heterogeneous information management infrastructure. Software sits at the heart of EMC's information lifecycle management (ILM) strategy, which is allowing regional businesses to manage their data cost-effectively from creation through to disposal," said Mohammed Amin, regional manager of EMC Middle East.

"Information Replication, Backup, and Archive software segments are among the fastest-growing segments of the market and where EMC Middle East anticipates the most growth in the next twelve months. EMC's portfolio of information protection products continues to help our Middle East-based customers meet a wider range of recovery point and recovery time objectives," he added.

Second Quarter Highlights

IDC reported that EMC grew its storage software revenue 13.1% in the second quarter. EMC continued to be #1 in the Storage Resource Management (SRM) and Replication software segments. In the Backup and Archive software segment, EMC gained 1.2 share points and outpaced the overall growth of the market. EMC closed the gap on the segment leader for the third consecutive quarter in the Backup and Archive segment, with the fastest revenue growth among the top four vendors.

According to IDC, #1 EMC extended its lead in the SRM software segment to 49.9% revenue share, more than four times the share of its closest competitor. #1 EMC grew Replication software revenues 31.6% in the quarter to extend its lead to 40.6% revenue share, more than 2.5 times the share of its closest competitor. EMC grew its Backup and Archive revenues 19.7%, more than twice as fast as the overall market, to 13.6% revenue share.

Information lifecycle management (ILM) is driven in large part by software-enabled intelligence in the information infrastructure. EMC's software offering includes a wide range of products to address customers' most pressing needs for consolidation, business continuity, recovery and archive, compliance, content management, virtualization, resource management and data protection.

In addition to its leadership in the software sector, EMC Corporation also extended its market share position in worldwide revenue for External Disk Storage systems for the eighth consecutive quarter in the second fiscal quarter of 2005, according to another recent report from IDC [b]. In the second quarter, EMC again maintained revenue leadership in every major segment of the external disk storage systems market including External RAID, Networked Storage, Open/iSCSI SAN (storage area network) and NAS (network attached storage). In NAS, #1 EMC widened its lead over #2 Network Appliance to five percentage points in the second quarter, growing its quarterly revenue share to more than 40%.