Sun Microsystems Outpaces Disk Storage Systems Market Nearly Three
Times Over, According to Latest Analyst Data
Leading Analyst Firm Shows Sun Achieved 29% Year-over-Year Increase
in Revenue to Outpace All Major Vendors in Fast Growing Q2CY08 Disk
Storage Systems Market
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) September 4, 2008 --
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:JAVA) today announced strong results for
disk storage systems sales, as highlighted in the IDC Quarterly Disk
Storage Systems Tracker for Q2CY08. Sun outpaced all major storage
vendors to see a 29.2% year-over-year increase in factory revenue for
the second quarter of 2008, outperforming the market by nearly three
times.
The second quarter's worldwide disk systems results shows continued
strength, with the total market increasing to $6.9B in revenues, up from
a 10.9% increase from Q2 CY07.
Sun disk storage systems outgrew the market in many major revenue
categories for Q2 CY2008:
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Sun grew year-over-year in the overall market by 29.2%, to estimated
disk storage revenue of $494M in calendar Q2 of 2008;
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Retained the #1 ranking for UNIX(R) Units shipped for the 19th
consecutive quarter, as well as tied for the top spot for UNIX
terabytes shipped;
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Momentum in the Midrange class of products (systems ranging in price
from $15,000 to $300,000), as Sun grew revenue, units and TBs shipped
faster than the market.
These storage disk systems are the foundation of Sun's Open Storage
strategy that allows customers to use open source software with
commodity storage hardware to achieve the greatest flexibility,
performance and cost savings available on the market. In addition, the
use of open source software allows customers to leverage the valuable
resources within Solaris ZFS and other OpenSolaris storage communities.
“Today's results demonstrate that Sun's unique
and open approach to storage is fast gaining acceptance with those that
matter most -- our customers,” said Jason
Schaffer, senior director, storage product management, Sun Microsystems,
Inc. “As more enterprises and Web tier
companies look to Sun for increased cost savings, efficiency and
flexibility in their datacenters, we look forward to accelerated
adoption of Sun's comprehensive systems and open storage product
families.”
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sun Microsystems develops the technologies that power the global
marketplace. Guided by a singular vision -- "The Network Is The
Computer(TM)" -- Sun drives network participation through shared
innovation, community development and open source leadership. Sun can be
found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
Sun, Sun Microsystems, the Sun Logo, Java and The Network Is The
Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems,
Inc. and its subsidiaries, in the United States and other countries.
UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries,
exclusively licensed through X/Open Company Ltd.
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