Total Enterprise Storage Sales Flat

IDC breaks the enterprise storage business into two categories. The first is worldwide total enterprise storage systems, which includes sales of all enterprises storage whether internal to a server or external in a storage area network.

Total enterprise storage systems revenue fell 0.5 percent over last year to $9.2 billion, or essentially flat. However, this came despite a massive 41.4 percent growth in the total capacity to 50.1 exabytes, reflecting a huge drop in the cost of storage, per terabyte shipped.

This was a tough quarter for many enterprise storage vendors, particularly Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Hitachi, which saw significant year-over year drops in sales. NetApp, however, is experiencing serious growth.