July 11, 2006 - Network Appliance,
Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced it has shown the strongest
market share growth among the top 10 vendors of storage software
and has moved into the top four vendors for market share in 2005.
According to Gartner's report "Market Share: Storage Management
Software, Worldwide, 2005,"[1] the total market for new license
revenue in 2004 to 2005 grew at a rate of 8.8 per cent, with NetApp
beating the market with a growth rate of 42.3 per cent for the same
period. For the third year in a row, this was the fastest growth
rate among the top 10 vendors in the space and for the first year
places NetApp in the top four, with a total overall market share of
6.5 per cent.
In core storage management, a subset of the overall storage
software market, NetApp moved up to number three, with 13.8 per
cent of the market, and grew at a rate of 33.4 per cent from 2004
to 2005 based on new license revenue, beating overall market
growth, which was 0.1 per cent year over year.
Finally, in the data replication software segment, another subset
of the overall storage software market, NetApp further reinforced
the number two position with 16.4 per cent of the market, growing
47.9 per cent year over year from 2004 to 2005, versus total
segment growth of 16.2 per cent based on new license revenue.
Patrick Rogers, vice president of Products and Partners at Network
Appliance, said: "Customers continue to discover and reap the
benefits of NetApp software, helping them to safeguard and simplify
data management processes. We believe the results of this report
demonstrate the value customers recognize in our unique ability to
provide high-performance software in the data centre and remote
offices for their primary, backup, data protection, compliance, and
archiving needs at a truly compelling price."
For more information regarding the Gartner 2005 storage software
market share report visit Gartner at
www.gartner.com
[1]Gartner Dataquest, "Market Share: Storage Management Software,
Worldwide, 2005," Aman Munglani and Nikhil Pank, June 28,
2006.
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for today's data-intensive enterprise. Since its inception in 1992,
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firsts. Information about Network Appliance solutions and services
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