Aussie storage growth above average: Gartner

Stephen Withers
Wednesday, 16 March 2011 10:57

Australian expenditure on storage is growing faster than the rest of the world, but lags behind the Asia Pacific region as a whole. This comes after two years of declining revenue for vendors in Australia.

Figures published by industry analyst Gartner show Australian spending on external controller-based (ECB) storage grew by 19% in 2010. This compares with 18% worldwide, and 21% in Asia Pacific excluding Japan.

Growth in the region was quite evenly spread, ranging from nearly 18% to 23% in different nations.

The big winner was EMC, which saw its revenue from the region grow from $US533.9 million to $US716.0 million. Most other vendors also saw improved revenues, but the biggest loser was Oracle. In 2009, Sun had $US134.4 million revenue in 2009. Now part of Oracle, it only recorded $US82.1 million revenue in 2010.

Dell performed well in percentage terms, going from $US127.6 million to $US174.2 million.

There were some changes in the technology people bought during 2010. In 2009, the biggest growth was in lower-end devices," explained Jimmie Chang, principal analyst at Gartner.

Please read on to find out what led to the change.