Organisations are spending more than $1.5bn on storage
software worldwide in the second quarter, up 7.3% from the previous
quarter, according to a report by IDC.
The storage replication segment led the sales growth with
revenue up 8.5% from the first quarter. Software for backing up and
archiving data, the largest part of the market, was up 7.3% .
Renewed concern by customers about data protection and disaster
recovery, plus recently introduced regulations about record
retention and retrieval, helped to drive sales in these two
segments. Revenue from sales of storage resource management
software grew only 6.1% from the previous quarter.
The top five storage software suppliers have remained the same
since the last quarter of 2002.
In the second quarter, EMC consolidated its lead as its share of
revenue rose by 24%. EMC's storage software revenue grew 13.6% from
the first quarter, to $399m.
Veritas Software slightly outperformed the market but trailed
EMC with 21% of the market, unchanged from the previous quarter.
Computer Associates International, IBM and Hewlett-Packard remain
in the top five suppliers.
Other suppliers together had 29% of the market with $458m in
revenue, compared with 2.2% from the previous quarter's
revenue.
Stephen Lawson writes for IDG News Service