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The total worldwide enterprise storage systems factory revenue grew 34.4% year over year during the first quarter of 2018 (1Q18) to $13.0 billion, according to IDC. Total capacity shipments were up 79.1% year over year to 98.8 exabytes during the quarter.
Revenue generated by the group of original design manufacturers (ODMs) selling directly to hyperscale datacenters increased 80.4% year over year in 1Q18 to $3.1 billion. This represented 23.9% of total enterprise storage investments during the quarter. Sales of server-based storage increased 34.2% year over year, to $3.6 billion in revenue. This represented 28.0% of total enterprise storage investments. The external storage systems market was worth $6.3 billion during the quarter, up 19.3% from 1Q17.
Dell was the largest supplier for the quarter, accounting for 21.6% of total enterprise storage systems revenue and growing 43.0% over 1Q17. HPE/New H3C Group was the second largest supplier with 17.7% share of revenue. NetApp generated 6.8% of total revenue, making it the third largest vendor during the quarter.
Hitachi and IBM were statistically tied as the fourth largest suppliers with 3.6% and 3.0% respective share of revenue during the quarter. As a single group, storage systems sales by original design manufacturers (ODMs) directly to hyperscale datacenter customers accounted for 23.9% of global spending during the quarter.
Top 5 Vendors, Enterprise Storage Systems Market, 1Q18 (Revenues in US$ millions) | |||||
Company | 1Q18 Revenue | 1Q18 Share | 1Q17 Revenue | 1Q17 Share | 1Q18/1Q17 Growth |
1. Dell | $2,815.0 | 21.6% | $1,968.2 | 20.3% | 43.0% |
2. HPE/New H3C Group | $2,307.2 | 17.7% | $1,950.1 | 20.1% | 18.3% |
3. NetApp | $890.1 | 6.8% | $731.6 | 7.6% | 21.7% |
T4. Hitachi | $464.4 | 3.6% | $460.1 | 4.8% | 0.9% |
T4. IBM | $387.0 | 3.0% | $455.3 | 4.7% | -15.0% |
ODM Direct | $3,111.5 | 23.9% | $1,725.0 | 17.8% | 80.4% |
Others | $3,035.7 | 23.3% | $2,392.0 | 24.7% | 26.9% |
All Vendors | $13,010.9 | 100.0% | $9,682.4 | 100.0% | 34.4% |