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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Network Appliance and HP are running neck-to-neck for the #1 slot. At the same time, the combined EMC-Dell revenue would make it the #1 vendor in networked storage market for 2005-06. Network Appliance's position at the top is primarily owing to NAS deployments. However, it's the trio of HP, IBM and EMC which dominates the more lucrative SAN market

Secondary Storage over the Years
	2004-05	2005-06	Growth (%)	2006-07 (Expected)	Growth (%) (Expected)
Tape Drives
Revenue (Rs crore)	132	147	11	171	16
Shipments	31,204	31,175	0	31,823	2
Tape Automation
Revenue (Rs crore)	89	104	17	108	4
Shipments	1,159	1,161	0	1,247	7
Total Revenue (Rs crore)	221	251	14	279	11

The secondary storage grew by only 11%, but the fact remains that Indian enterprises will continue using secondary storage, especially for backup and archival. While tape drives accounted for 59% of the revenue, tape automation products contributed the rest. HP had more than 40% of the market share followed by IBM and Quantum

HP regains the #1 slot from EMC after a year. However, with Dell reselling substantial EMC products, the EMC-Dell combo will still remain on top. The surprise at #2 is Network Appliance, riding strong on NAS

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