May 4, 2005 – According to Gartner’s report “Market Share: Storage Management Software, Worldwide, 2004”1, the total market for new license revenue in 2003 to 2004 grew at a rate of 12.3% with Network Appliance (NASDAQ:NTAP) beating the market with a growth rate of 73.5% for the same period. NetApp showed the strongest market share growth among the top ten vendors of storage software and has moved into the top five vendors for marketshare in 2004.. For the second year in a row, this was the fastest growth rate among the top ten vendors in the space and for the first year places NetApp in the top five with a total overall market share of 5.2%.
In core storage management, a subset of the overall storage software market, NetApp was number four with 11.2% of the market and grew at a rate of 74.4% from 2003 to 2004 based on new license revenue, beating overall market growth which was 6.6% year over year.
And finally, in the data replication software segment, another subset of the overall storage software market, NetApp moved into the number two position with 13.5% of the market, growing 73.3% year over year from 2003 to 2004 versus total segment growth of 20% based on new license revenue.
“NetApp is known by many customers as a hardware vendor, but we’ve been telling customers and prospects for years that software is the real NetApp story and added value,” said Patrick Rogers, vice president of Products and Partners at Network Appliance. “Whether the software is integrated into our systems as Data ONTAP™, ‘embedded’ in technology advances such as RAID-DP, or add-on software for a variety of applications, our solutions are designed to simplify data management, provide easy management tools, and provide the highest data availability possible—all at an attractive price and a compellingly low TCO.”
Full details of the Gartner Storage Software Market Share Report are available from Gartner.
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1Gartner Dataquest, "Market Share: Storage Management Software, Worldwide, 2004," Carolyn DiCenzo, April 19, 2005.