IBM has bagged the top slot in the India external disk storage market in revenue terms in first quarter (Q1) of 2011, according to IDC’s Asia/Pacific Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker, Q1 2011, May 2011. With 28.2 percent revenue market share, IBM was the among the fastest growing top five external disk storage vendor in India in Q1 2011, gaining 6.9 percentage points share on a year-on-year basis.

Extending the leadership position in Q4 and CY 2010 into Q1 2011, IBM had 8 percentage points lead in comparison with its nearest competitor in revenue terms in the external disk storage market in Q1 2011. The overall External Disk storage market in India grew 16 percent year-on-year in Q1 2011.

“We are investing both through acquisitions (like XIV) and R&D (like Storwize V7000, SONAS) to drive innovation in key storage technologies across software and hardware,” said Sandeep K Dutta, Vice President - Storage, Systems and Technology Group, IBM India/ SA. “These investments have helped us build the portfolio of storage offerings for our clients, further consolidating our leadership position in the market. In Q1 we witnessed significant traction across sectors including telco, BFSI, government/public sector, media & entertainment and mid-market.”