Customers worldwide choose EMC as #1 storage in mission critical environments

EMC Corporation today announced it is ranked by customers across the globe as the #1 storage choice for mission critical environments, according to the latest end-user study from IDC. The survey ranks storage vendors based on customer deployment patterns within the most widely-used enterprise applications. According to the IDC study, more customers choose EMC® storage than any other vendor’s for their Oracle, Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint, SAP, Business Intelligence and Analytics, Virtual Desktop Infrastructure and Home Directory environments.

The results of the IDC study are based on the survey of 1,000 respondents representing 15 countries and across 19 industries with company size ranging from 50 employees to over 10,000 employees, which was completed in Fall 2011. The survey focused primarily on applications, enabling IDC to ascertain end-user sentiment regarding their preference toward certain brands based on specific applications.

Natalya Yezhkova, Research Director, IDC's Worldwide Storage Systems Research and Lead Analyst, Storage Users Demand Study (SUDS): “IDC initiated its biannual worldwide survey of storage administrators that analyzes how storage capacity is consumed by the major data use cases from the most widely-used business applications to IT infrastructure support.  The data suggests that EMC, which accounted for nearly a quarter of external terabytes shipped worldwide in the first half of 2011, shipped more storage than any other enterprise storage systems supplier to run eight out of nine major data use cases we surveyed.”

Jeremy Burton, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, EMC: “Whether in traditional, next-generation virtualized cloud, Big Data or Hybrid Cloud, customers are choosing EMC as their #1 choice for the most mission critical application environments. Our product and technology innovation centered on helping customers handle the data deluge driven by the two hottest trends in IT the transition to cloud computing and the management of Big Data.”