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IDC's second 2014 quarter storage tracker shows networked storage array revenues fell for the second quarter in a row, with both high-end and mid-range array sales affected. It marks 12 months of high-end storage revenue decline. The tracker looks at networked arrays (external-controller-based storage) and also the total disk …

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  1. Lusty

    Curious

    Do we count NetApp being at the bottom of overall storage market share as actually a good thing given their preference for dedupe and compression?

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    1. pwnmasta
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      Re: Curious

      It'd be interesting to see the capacity vs. revenue metric.

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Curious

      Of course Netapp are doing all they can for their fellow man, giving us more for less and thereby purposely reducing their own revenues :-) not...

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  2. P. Lee

    It's not surprising

    You can rack up all the disks you want, but those 40G network links are neither cheap nor large enough - that's just 6 SATA3 ports. That's before you add the premium costs for the management features.

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