Comments on: Dell sells EMC storage

By: Jeremiah Owyang

Jeremiah Owyang — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:24:35 +0000

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

By: ah

ah — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:47:50 +0000

ibm also sales netapp

By: Dave Hitz

Dave Hitz — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:04:06 +0000

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.