Oracle has shipped more enterprise tape drives than any other vendor in the first half of calendar year 2011, according to IDC’s Worldwide Tape QView 1H 2011 Pivot. Oracle also shipped the most tape libraries, over 1,000 slots, and held over 70 percent market share for LTO libraries over 1,000 slots, according to QView 1H 2011 Pivot. Oracle’s StorageTek T10000C Tape Drive is the world's fastest tape drive, also delivering a 5TB native capacity -- the world's highest -- with a transfer rate of up to 252 MB/second.
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IDC's "Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker" found that external disk storage systems factory revenues posted year-over-year growth of 10.8%, totaling just under $5.8 billion in 3Q11. The total disk storage systems market grew to $7.6 billion in revenues in the quarter, 8.5% up from 3Q10. EMC led the external disk storage systems market with 28.6% revenue share in the third quarter, followed by IBM and NetApp tied for second with 12.7% and 12.1% market share. In total worldwide disk storage systems, EMC finished in the top position with market shares of 21.7% followed by HP with 18.9% respectively.
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Gartner reports that server shipments worldwide are up 7% and revenue up 5% in 2011Q3. IBM led the worldwide server market based on revenue while HP declined 3.6 percent year-on-year and Oracle exhibited flat growth. HP held on to its leadership position in server shipments despite a decline for the quarter. Dell was in second place and IBM in third. The Register confirms Gartner's finding, noting that "shipment and revenue levels on a global basis have more or less recovered to the levels prevailing ahead of the server crash in the wake of the Great Recession three years ago."
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How does one describe UNIX, that Grande Dame of OSes: faded, perhaps, but vital nonetheless? Those are not Richard Fichera's words but they appear to be his sentiments in his article for Forrester, "UNIX -- Dead or Alive? and framing the title in terms of a wanted poster suggests his very thesis, that UNIX is still much in demand and likely to remain so. He contends that UNIX on proprietary RISC architectures is in for the long haul and predicts vendors, including Oracle, IBM and HP, will offer continued improvements in hardware and software.
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The IDC report "Ongoing Infrastructure Investments Carry Storage Software Revenues to Seventh Consecutive Quarter of Growth in 2Q11" finds a total market value approaching $3.4 billion during the quarter, up 11.3% over the same period last year. IDC reports that this double-digit growth broadly aligned with increased investments made within the server and disk storage systems markets during the same quarter, which suggests that storage software sales benefited from expansive investments made within the infrastructure space. The survey found EMC, Symantec, and IBM were the top ranking storage software suppliers with 24.5%, 15.8% and 14.1% market shares respectively.
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