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Today, I will talk to you about how to analyze the global external storage market pattern of Gartner 19Q1. Many people may not know much about it. In order to make you understand better, the editor has summarized the following for you. I hope you can get something according to this article.

Gartner actually released 19Q1's external storage tracking data in late June, which for the first time divides external storage into three markets: primary storage, secondary storage and backup-recovery integrated machine (for specific definition, please refer to my previous article newsletter: Gartner will modify the external storage category to add secondary storage content). As I have been busy during this period, I thought that if someone interpreted these data, I would not bother to analyze them. I did not expect that for more than a month, the market had been quiet and I had no choice but to do it myself.

Note: Gartner's new major, secondary and backup / recovery market segments are now reflected in the 1Q19 ECB market share document, and new segments for each vendor are reported from Q4 2016 to 1Q19. In addition to the new breakdown, Gartner redefines the Unit unit of calculation starting with 1Q19 vendor statistics. Gartner's new definition of ECB storage Unit is: "ECB storage Unit is an independent up-scale or out-scale array, including two nodes (controllers) and an operating system." Prior to this change, some vendor Unit were counted as nodes.

However, according to this definition, a distributed system should be a Unit of two nodes. If you buy a 3-node object storage, it may be 1.5 Unit. I don't know if my understanding is correct. However, my following interpretation does not involve Unit for the time being. Also, now that there is no Price Band in Gartner data, I don't know the grade of the equipment, which is a bit inconvenient.

Overall global situation

Let's first take a look at the analyzed data in the Gartner report:

Although solid-state array revenue increased by 22.3%, 1Q19 global ECB storage revenue fell by 0.003% due to a 13.8% drop in hard disk drives / hybrid arrays. SSA accounts for 46.8% of total ECB storage revenue.

The storage market based on external controllers (ECB) fell 0.003% in 1Q19. Geographically, revenue in the Asia-Pacific region grew by 12.6%, while revenue in other major regions-the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa and Japan-fell by 1.0%, 2.0% and 12.5%, respectively.

Solid-state arrays (SSA) continued to achieve double-digit growth of 22.3% at 1Q19, reaching $2.5 billion. This amount accounts for 46.8% of ECB's total income, which is higher than 1Q18's 38.2%. SSA is the main platform for primary storage, accounting for 55.7% of primary storage revenue. The adoption of SSA for secondary storage is also accelerating, with revenue up 187.3 per cent year-on-year.

However, there is a lot of information, and I have to look at the graphic analysis that I put a lot of effort into to make sure that you can see it at a glance. If you find it useful, remember to reward it.

ECB pattern

Garnet also said earlier that the entire ECB market fell slightly by 0.003%, which can also be interpreted as flat. Dell EMC is down, NetApp is down, HPE is up, this is the case with TOP3. The highest growth rates are Pure Storage and Huawei. Huawei still ranks seventh, no more than Pure Storage.

If we only look at the Chinese market, the growth rate of the market is 23.5%, which continues to grow at a high speed. Among them, Huawei as the first such a large volume, the growth rate is as high as 46.1%. This is a sign that Huawei has shifted its focus to China after its overseas expansion has been blocked. The growth rate of NetApp is also higher, which may be related to the joint venture of Lenovo. HPE and IBM decline is relatively large, know the reason for the children's shoes can leave a message to me.

SSA pattern

All-flash array (SSA) maintained rapid growth, with a growth rate of 22.3%, but the most significant growth was Huawei, with a growth rate of 238.3%. TOP5 manufacturers are Dell EMC,NetApp, Pure Storage, HPE, IBM. Pure Storage overtook HPE to enter the top three.

On the other hand, the growth rate of SSA in the Chinese market is even higher, as high as 89.1%, while only IBM and HPE decline in the mainstream manufacturers. Huawei grew at a high speed and entered the top three. NetApp also overtook Dell EMC to take the first place. Others also has a large share, indicating that many domestic companies are on the rise.

Although China's SSA is growing rapidly, there is still a big gap between China and the United States. The proportion of SSA in the United States is as high as 56%, while that in China is only 26%, which is much larger than the gap in GDP between the two countries.

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