George, as opposed to data warehousing, I just read that EMC has passed IBM in corporate data storage:
EMC Recognized as Leading Supplier
of Enterprise Storage for World's
Largest Databases
EMC Overtakes IBM, According to Winter
Corporation Survey
HOPKINTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 16, 1999--EMC Corporation's Symmetrix
Enterprise Storage systems are the leading storage platform for the world's largest databases,
according to the latest edition of the Winter Corporation's annual VLDB Survey Program Industry
Report. The annual survey of corporate executives and database practitioners shows that EMC has
surpassed IBM Corporation as the leading supplier of storage capacity for VLDBs (very large
databases). Winter Corporation, of Waltham, Mass., is an independent research and consulting firm
specializing in large database technology.
When asked which storage supplier provides the largest amount of storage capacity for their
VLDBs, 32 percent of survey respondents named EMC, compared with 20 percent for IBM.
EMC's presence jumped more than 100 percent, from 15 percent a year earlier, while IBM's
presence dropped from 25 percent in 1997 to 20 percent in 1998. Hewlett-Packard, which ranked
third most popular storage supplier last year, was not mentioned in this year's results due to the
reduced number of times respondents mentioned HP among their top VLDB storage suppliers.
The Winter VLDB Survey also found that the Grand Prize-winning companies in eight out of 12
categories, including largest database size for both transaction processing and decision support,
employ EMC Enterprise Storage systems. |
