With the amount of data to be stored growing at 50-percent-plus per year, it’s no surprise that storage vendors are selling a lot more storage. According to Gartner, Inc., the worldwide external controller-based (ECB) disk storage market surpassed $ 19.4 billion in 2010, an 18.1 percent increase from 2009 revenue and beating the previous high set in 2008 by $ 1.4 billion. What may come as a surprise is that EMC increased its market lead by 3 points and NetApp jumped from sixth to third spot among the top vendors.
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