Brisk growth for storage in China; and a who’s who of Chinese data storage companies

It’s interesting to take a look at IDC’s recently-released market tracker figures for external disk storage systems for China. Interesting in two senses: To see who the key players are, and that largely they’re a different set of storage vendors to those we’re used to, and; to see how the market is progressing there in terms of growth.

The headline facts are that in Q2 of 2016 the China external disk storage systems market was worth $527 million and that was up 7.2% year-on-year (although most growth was in the mid-market, with low- and high-end segments seeing declines).

The top five storage vendors were #Huawei (21%), followed by #EMC (10%), then Hikvision (8%), #Inspur (6%) and $IBM (6%), while “others” accounted for 49% of the market.

http://www.computerweekly.com/blog/StorageBuzz/Brisk-growth-for-storage-in-China-and-a-whos-who-of-Chinese-data-storage-companies