Total worldwide enterprise storage systems factory revenue grew 6,8% year-over-year to nearly $8,8-billion during the first quarter of 2015 (1Q15), according to the International Data Corporation (IDC) Worldwide Quarterly Worldwide Disk Storage Systems Tracker.
Total capacity shipments were up 41,1% year over year to 28,3 exabytes during the quarter.
“Following a busy end-of-year spending environment, the enterprise storage market fell back into what has become a familiar market pattern,” says Eric Sheppard, research director: Storage at IDC.
“Spending on traditional external arrays fell during the quarter while demand for server-based storage and hyperscale infrastructure was up strongly during the quarter.”
EMC finished in the top position within the total worldwide enterprise storage systems market, accounting for 17.4% of all spending in 1Q15.
HP held the number two position with a 14,6% share of spending during the quarter.
Dell accounted for 10,2% of global spending.
As a collective group, storage systems sales by original design manufacturers (ODM’s) selling directly to hyperscale data centre customers accounted for 12,6% of global spending during the quarter.