Disk Array Sales Keep Revving in Q3, Says IDC
December 4, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan
The server market saw a tiny uptick in sales in the third quarter of 2006, but the external disk array market saw a much more pronounced increase, according to research by IDC. The storing of new kinds of rich content as well as server consolidation is driving up capacity sold and revenues, said IDC. In the third quarter, sales of all kinds of disk storage systems (both internal to servers and externally attached) increased by 7.9 percent to $6.2 billion, IDC reckons. External disk array sales–which means machines that attach to servers through Fibre Channel, Ethernet, or other kinds |