EMC maintained its top spot in storage software market in the second quarter, followed by Symantec, according to International Data Corp (IDC).
EMC with $722 million in revenue and 24.4 percent market share remained the leading storage software vendor. Meanwhile, Symantec generated $488 million in revenue and captured 16.5 percent in market share.
The market research firm said worldwide storage software market experienced continued gains in the second quarter of 2010 with revenues of about $3.0 billion, a 3.3 percent growth over last year.
“The gains in the storage software market in the second quarter were largely the result of overall growth from some of the large suppliers,” Laura DuBois, program vice president, Storage Software at IDC said in a statement.
The storage software revenue growth of 3.3 percent is in line with worldwide external disk storage systems factory revenues, which posted year-over-year growth of 20.4%, totaling $5.0 billion in the second quarter of 2010.
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