IBM and HP are neck-and-neck for the second place position in the external disk storage market but remain well behind EMC for top billing, according to the latest report by research house IDC. EMC leads the pack, ringing in $912m worth of sales during the first quarter and taking 21.2 per cent of the market. Although EMC …

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Thursday 7th June 2007 21:50 GMT Anonymous Coward

iSCSI

iSCSI could be the spoiler in all this. Cheaper to buy. Cheaper to implement. But it's a fragmented market with many small vendors. That could change if any of the big players decide to jump in.

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Friday 8th June 2007 13:35 GMT Lead Magnet

All ready there

EMC was one of the first companies to offer iSCSI - and all the other big vendors have been in the mark for a couple years.

iSCSI is not the magic bullet people thought it would be - it's biggest consumers as small companies that are more cost sensitive and less performance & security minded

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