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Dell sells EMC storage

By Jason Hoffman 1 September 06

Dave is rightly happy about passing EMC in networked storage sales

The problem?

All of Dell’s SAN, NAS and iSCSI (“networked storage”) are EMCs.

66,581 EMC + 19,651 Dell = 86,232 terabytes

vs.

68,898 terabytes NetApp

Unless I’m missing something here?

{btw 86,232 TBs is 3,593 raw thumpers , nuts huh?}


  1. IDC always reports the data according to who sold the system. That indicates which vendor has the most influence over the customer, since the customer chose to buy from them. (At least, I figure that’s what IDC is thinking.)

    Given my engineering background, I’ve always thought it was at least as interesting to consider who supplies the technology, even though IDC doesn’t even report things that way, so I’ve done the math myself. Done that way, by TB, EMC is still #1, and NetApp is #2. IBM, Sun and Dell slip way down in the ranking, since they OEM most of their storage from other companies. A very different view of the market.

    I won’t argue which view is better, but it seemed at least defensible to look at things the way IDC does.

    — Dave Hitz    690 days ago    #

  2. ibm also sales netapp

    — ah    688 days ago    #

  3. I guess we’re doing the “me too” approach. Sun resells Hitachi gear, and Dell uses Hitachi Hardrives. Apple sells storage and uses Hitachi Hardrives in iPods.

    Joyent folks, I added you to the “Data Storage Industry Wiki”
    http://storagebloggers.pbwiki.com/Data%20Storage%20Bloggers

    Jeremiah, Community Manager at Hitachi Data Systems

    — Jeremiah Owyang    678 days ago    #

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