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Press Release Source: EMC


New Report Confirms EMC Extended External Raid Storage Systems Market Share Lead in Fourth Quarter
Friday March 5, 8:03 am ET
#1 EMC Also Led NAS Market in Fourth Quarter of 2003


HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 5, 2004--EMC storage systems demonstrated continued momentum in the fourth quarter of 2003 according to data released today by IDC. On a year-over-year basis, EMC extended its lead over Hewlett-Packard and IBM during the fourth quarter as the world's #1 provider of external RAID disk storage systems. Also during the fourth quarter, EMC continued to lead in network storage and was #1 in networked attached storage (NAS), according to IDC.
Howard Elias, EMC's Executive Vice President of Corporate Marketing and Office of Technology, said, "Customer adoption of EMC's entire lineup of tiered networked storage platforms accelerated throughout 2003. The market rewarded our continued focus on solving customers' information management challenges, with EMC external RAID storage platforms revenue growth in the fourth quarter of nearly twice the rate of the total industry and greater share gains than any of the next three providers. Throughout the year, organizations around the globe turned to EMC and our partners to lay strong foundations of tiered storage for information lifecycle management."

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Worldwide Disk Storage System External RAID Market Share

Vendor Q4 2002 Q4 2003
Market Market
Share Share Share Change(c)

EMC (a) 20.3% 21.9% 1.7
HP 20.1% 20.8% 0.7
IBM 15.3% 16.6% 1.4
Hitachi 7.9% 8.2% 0.3
Dell (b) 3.5% 5.2% 1.8
Sun Micro. 6.6% 6.2% -0.4
NetApp 4.3% 4.5% 0.2
Others 22.1% 16.6% -5.5

Total 100.0% 100.0%