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Storage Sun Micro ‘bullish’ on storage market Our Bureau Kolkata, May 19 The small and medium business (SMB) segment will witness “volume sales” and be the “growth engine” of storage product offerings of Sun Microsystems India Pvt Ltd. The growth in volume sales will also be spurred by customers’ increasing preference for open storage as opposed to the proprietary platform, where customers get locked-in to one particular vendor, according to Mr Siva Sankaran, Director, Storage Practice, Sun Microsystems India Pvt Ltd. Addressing newspersons here on Monday, Mr Sankaran said the storage market in India was pegged at $300-350 million and grew by around 20 per cent last year. The growth was fuelled by increased demand from sectors such as telecom, retail, banking, financial services and insurance. Local partnersWith the company’s offerings at the entry level being priced at $5,000, and volumes in the SMB sector picking up, the company was “bullish” on its growth prospects in India. Towards this end, Sun Microsystems India has put in place a strategy to “expand the SME base across towns and cities in the country”. This strategy envisages partnering with local solutions providers as well. Mr Sankaran said while the SMB segment would provide the business volumes, big size and higher value businesses would be generated from the enterprise segment. The growing open source community was fast changing the economics of storage IT market, he said. Sun Microsystems India has a 16.8 per cent share of the Indian market for storage products, he added quoting IDC. More Stories on : Storage
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