Gartner’s IT industry research confirmed March 8 what IDC had reported a few days ago: That the data storage hardware industry had a pretty darn good year in 2010.
In fact, Gartner went one up and declared 2010 the segment’s highest
revenue-producing year ever, the only sector in all of IT to
accomplish this in the last 12 months.
Gartner reported that the worldwide ECB (external controller-based)
disk storage market exceeded its previous high set in 2008 by $1.4
billion in 2010. In total, ECB storage revenue hit the $19.4
billion mark in 2010, an 18.1 percent increase from 2009 revenue of
$16.5 billion.
“Storage infrastructure modernization, expanded server and desktop
virtualization projects, disk-based backup and archiving deployments,
new file-oriented applications, and cloud-based service offerings are
the engines that are propelling ECB disk storage vendor revenue
growth,” said Roger Cox, research vice president at Gartner.
“Clearly, IT executives are showing a willingness to invest in new and
modern ECB disk storage solutions that address complexity, reduce opex
and improve utilization while satisfying demanding service-level
agreements.”
For more, read the eWEEK article: 2010 a Very Good Year in Storage: Gartner.