Over the past few weeks the major enterprise storage vendors have been releasing their financial results. Analyst firms and industry insiders have been weighing in and making sense of what the numbers are telling us about the market. IDC reported that the Worldwide Enterprise External OEM Storage Systems Market Revenue Declined 0.8% During the Second Quarter of 2019. Read more here.
The Storage Newsletter, a micro-Journal that is 100% focused on publishing daily news on the worldwide storage industry recently shared this information dated August 30th, 2019, on the top players in the market and their recent financial reports.
The most recent financial quarterly sales of the biggest subsystems companies in storage prove the recent difficulties in the global market:
Dell: +0% Y/Y, +4% Q/Q
HPE: -5% Y/Y, -10% Q/Q,
IBM: -21% Y/Y for storage hardware
NetApp: -16% Y/Y, -22% Q/Q
Nutanix: -1% Y/Y, +4% Q/Q
The only exception is Pure Storage: +28% Y/Y and +21% Q/Q.
Interesting to see the Pure Storage news. They have their annual user conference next week, Accelerate, in Austin and it will be exciting to learn more about what they have in store to keep the growth going.
