Pure sees flash of Big Blue as it drops to fifth behind IBM

Comment It is only one quarter, but IDC’s latest enterprise storage numbers show #IBM’ s flash array revenues have overtaken those of #PureStorage, putting that IPO’d company in fifth place in the market. Stifel analyst Aaron Rakers has reported on IDC’s fourth 2016 quarter enterprise external storage revenues and we highlight the all-flash array (AFA) numbers in his report. Vendor AFA revenues were: #EMC - $645.1m, #NetApp - $279.2m, #HPE - $204.9m, #IBM - $188.4m, #Pure - $169m (calculated by us), #Hitachi - $40.2m, #Nimble - $32.3m. Stifel’s reporting of the IDC all-flash array vendor revenue shares in the fourth 2016 quarter: EMC - 34 per cent, down from 39 per cent and 36 per cent in the prior and year-ago quarters, NetApp - 19 per cent, up from 16 per cent and 13 per cent in the prior and year-ago periods, HPE - 13 per cent, unchanged from a year ago, IBM - 11.1 per cent (calculated by us), Pure Storage - 10 per cent, down from 13 per cent and 11 per cent in the prior and year-ago periods. Here’s a Stifel-produced chart of vendor all-flash array revenues based on this data, showing that IBM has overtaken Pure:
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