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03/08/2006, 2:55pm, EST

Wednesday, March 8th

Apple shining in storage market

One blogger is questioning why Apple does not keep people up to date on its progress in the enterprise markets with regard to storage. After its second quarter in 2005, Apple had sold 76 petabytes of storage, collected approximately $78 million in storage sales, and was ranked as the no. 12 storage vendor in the world according to Gigaom.com. By the end of 2005, the company's storage sales were roughly $185 million, and it had moved up to no. 10 overall. "They have done a good job of selling into the small and medium business market," said Robert Cox, vice president of research for Gartner. "They are in a good and a growing market, and have done a good job of building a reliable and easy to use device from commodity components." About 40 percent of Apple's Xserve RAIDs are connected to non-Mac OS servers, and the price-per-gigabyte ratio of the storage solution dwarfs most SCSI storage solutions, costing a fraction of similar products from Dell, HP, and others.


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