Analyst: HP catching up to EMC in hardware

Hewlett-Packard now has more than 19 percent of the external storage hardware market, just shy of market-leader EMC's 20 percent, according to new research from IDC. The research is somewhat inaccurate, as Dell has another 6 percent--which is just resold EMC gear. Regardless, HP is catching up, the IDC analyst said. IBM follows at 13 percent, with Hitachi and Sun Microsystems both in the 7-8 percent range. A variety of other partnerships make those numbers rather bendable by corporate marketing types, but the general message is still clear: the boys at EMC are still the Yankees of server storage.

For more on storage:
- read this IDG News article