EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, continued as the top provider of external disk storage systems for the tenth consecutive year in 2007, according to the latest IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, March 2008. [1]

In addition to being #1 in revenue and capacity shipped in the external disk storage systems market for 2007, EMC extended its revenue share lead over its two largest competitors. Increased sales of EMC combined with co-branded EMC/Dell external disk storage systems sold by Dell accounted for well over one quarter of the overall growth of the entire external storage systems market, according to researchers.

EMC's #1 position in share of the worldwide networked storage market in 2007 — which includes NAS (network attached storage), Open SAN (storage area network) and iSCSI SAN — was more than double that of Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Network Appliance. In NAS, EMC extended its #1 position in 2007 by taking market share and growing revenue almost twice as fast as Network Appliance.

"In 2007, EMC introduced new versions of each of its storage systems, the largest platforms refresh in the company's history, with new features and functionality that were quickly embraced by customers," said BJ Jenkins, EMC's Senior Vice President, Global Marketing. "The strength and flexibility of our complete portfolio — from our high end, mid-tier and entry level SAN systems to the industry's easiest to use NAS systems — demonstrates our ability to provide customers with the right solution to meet their requirements. And that momentum has continued into 2008, with EMC delivering even more storage innovation and choice for businesses and organizations of all sizes."

[1] Source: IDC, March 6, 2008