More than 5720 Terabytes of storage was shipped in the second quarter of 2005. This is up from 4,600 for the same period last year.

On the eve of the opening of the Storage Networking World expo in Sydney, Gartner says external disk storage revenue in Australia totalled A$97.8 million in the second quarter of 2005.

The amount of external disk storage capacity shipped in the same period was an “impressive” 5725 terabytes, Gartner said – up from 4600 terabytes in the first six months of 2004. The top three vendors in Australia for Q2 were Hewlett-Packard with a vendor revenue market share of 28.8pc, EMC with 18.1 and IBM with 17.9. For Hewlett-Packard alone this mean revenue of
A$28 million, according to Gartner.

“As more e-mail, video, graphic and audio information is created, organisations’ appetites for disk storage will continue to grow,”
said Phil Sargeant, Gartner’s storage VP. “The challenge for organisations will be to digest this volume of storage. Good management techniques and good people will be required.” Storage Networking World opens at Sydney’s Darling Harbour complex today, with security exert and author Ira Winkler discussing Secrets Of Super Spies – The Truth Behind The Most Devastating Computer And Information Crimes. Larry Krantz of the Storage Networking Industry Association delivers a keynote at 9.50am. At 10.30 there’s a storage roundtable discussion with SNIA board members, conference presenters and end users including reps of Griffith University, Baycorp Advantage and Qld Uni of Technology. Around 40 storage companies will be showing their wares at the accompanying exhibition. They include Sun, H-P, HDS, IBM, Imation, Quantum, Sony, Falconstor, McData and Bakbone.

According to IT research group IDC the worldwide external disk storage market was worth $3.8 billion  in Q2, 2005. This was up 8.6%.The total disk market was up 9.9% to $5.6 billion. IDC says: “Capacity continues to outpace overall revenue growth with total disk storage systems petabytes growing 59.3% year over year to 457 petabytes for the second quarter.”
Sales of servers with 3 or more disk drives is driving internal storage sales, said Brad Nisbet, program manager in IDC’s Storage Systems program.
EMC leads the external disk storage market with 21.2% revenue share, followed by HP and IBM with 18.8% and 13.8% revenue share, respectively. Dell edged out Hitachi for the fourth position with 8.3% revenue share while Hitachi ended the quarter with 7.3%.
The total network storage market (NAS combined with Open and iSCSI SAN) posted 16.1% year-over-year growth in the second quarter to nearly $2.5 billion. EMC continues to maintain its leadership in the total network storage market with 27.9% revenue share, followed by HP with 21.3%. Dell and IBM posted the strongest year-over-year revenue growth for the quarter among the top 5 vendors, with 33.2% and 22.9% growth, respectively.
The Open/iSCSI SAN market grew 17.8% year over year, surpassing $2.0 billion in revenues for the first time. Unlike the first quarter of 2005, there was no clear leader: EMC and HP were in a statistical tie for the first place position. EMC had 25.0% revenue share and HP had 24.8% revenue share for the second quarter. Dell and IBM posted the strongest revenue share gain among the top 5 vendors, with 1.6 and 0.6 year-over-year share point gain, respectively.
In the NAS market, which grew 9.5% year over year, EMC led with 40.2% revenue share, followed by Network Appliance with 35.2% share. The iSCSI SAN market posted nearly 140% revenue growth year-over-year. Network Appliance continues to lead the market with 41.6% share, followed by EMC with 26.0% share.
But then again Dow Jones newswires reports that “Hewlett-Packard Outgrows Market, Continues To Rank No. 1 In Worldwide Total Disk Storage Systems Rev” so there is some solace for everyone