IBM India has emerged number one in revenue for the fourth quarter and full year (2010) in the India external disk storage systems, according to IDC estimates. According to the IDC report, IBM has maintained its 2010 leadership with a 26.2 per cent market share, in revenue terms, and over 4 per cent points lead over its nearest competitor. In addition, in the fourth quarter in 2010, IBM maintained leadership with a 29 per cent market share and a 7 per cent point lead over its nearest competitor, in revenue terms.
The IDC report states the overall External Disk storage market in India declined 1.5 per cent in CY 2010. ?The launch of a series of systems in 2010, including the IBM StorwizeV7000 and the IBM System Storage DS8000 devices, helped strengthen the company's leadership position in the market,? said IBM. StorwizeV7000 is designed to improve storage efficiency and costs while providing clients ease of use and performance in a midrange package, the company said. DS8000 offers high-performance, high-capacity; secure storage systems that are designed to deliver high levels of performance, flexibility, scalability, resiliency and total overall value for the most demanding, heterogeneous storage environments.
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