EMC maintained the number one spot, finishing the quarter with 23,8% of the market. IBM and Hewlett-Packard were locked in a tight race for second and third place, IBM maintained its worldwide ECB market share at 14,6%, while increasing its revenue by 4% year-over-year.

Hewlett-Packards market share (also at 14,6%) fell by 1,5% year-over-year. Hitachi/HDS maintained its number four ranking with an 8,3% share of the market, while increasing its revenue by 5,8% year-over-year. Sun Microsystems took over the number five spot with 7,6% market share, just barely ahead of Dell and Network Appliance, both at 7,5%.
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Network Appliance experienced the strongest growth year-over-year among the top-tier vendors, with 22,2% revenue growth. Suns revenue growth of 13,8% year-over-year continues to be primarily the result of its acquisition of StorageTek in the third quarter of last year, says Donna Taylor, principal analyst for Gartners global storage quarterly statistics programme.
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Smaller vendors continued to see their market share erode, as the ‘others category experienced a revenue decline of 4,9% in the second quarter. The top seven vendors accounted for 84,1% of worldwide ECB revenue in 2Q06, up by 1,6% from last year.
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In the EMEA region, the ECB disk storage revenue totalled $1,05bn in the second quarter of 2006, a 2,4% decrease over the same period last year.
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Gartner adjusted the ‘other vendors revenue category to better reflect the dynamics of the ECB market in EMEA. Without the adjustment the industry would have grown by 4% over the same period last year, says Robin Burke, research vice-president at Gartner.
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EMC maintained the number one spot in the region with 3,5 market share percentage points ahead of Hewlett-Packard. IBM, NetApp and Hitachi/HDS were the only vendors in the region to show double-digit growth year-on-year. Dell posted its second consecutive quarter of decline this year, after achieving more than 50% growth quarter-on-quarter in 2005.
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Gartner ECB disk storage reports reflect hardware only revenue, as well as hardware revenue associated with financial leases and managed services. Optional storage software revenue and Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructure components are excluded.

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