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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A recent report from IDC, "Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker" finds strong growth continuing in the worldwide disk storage systems market in Q211. IDC found the total disk storage systems market grew to just shy of $7.5 billion in revenues, representing 10.2% growth from the prior year's second quarter. Total disk storage systems capacity shipped reached 5,353 petabytes (PB), growing 46.7% year over year. EMC maintained its lead in the external disk storage systems market, followed by IBM and NetApp, who tied for second.
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Oracle's Q4 2011 looks good to the company's top brass, CEO Larry Ellison; President and CFO Safra Katz; and President Mark Hurd as revealed in a conference call moderated by Ken Bond, Vice President of Investor Relations for Oracle. Katz reported that non-GAAP earnings per share for the year were $2.22, well above the earlier consensus estimate of $1.88 without reducing share count. Q4 was Oracle's first $10 billion quarter.
A transcript of the company's recent earnings conference call with analysts is now online.
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