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Editor:- It gives me great pleasure to introduce the 6th annual edition of STORAGEsearch.com's list of the Fastest Growing Storage Companies. Many storage companies are now reporting revenue growth rates of 20%, or 25%. But that wasn't enough to get you into the top 10 list for this year. 34% revenue growth was the minimum entry requirement.

If you're looking for successful companies to buy from, or successful companies to partner with these are the companies you cannot ignore.

Unlike previous years where most of the high growth was concentrated in a few market segments - this year there was good revenue growth reported in a wide range of storage segments.
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Squeak! - the fastest growing storage companies in 2007/8

Companies are listed in alphabetic order - (source - STORAGEsearch.com)

company year on year
growth
period main product category
Alacritech 100% year iSCSI
BluePoint Data Storage 140% quarter online backup and storage
Compellent 124% quarter NAS
Coraid 370% year NAS
ExaGrid Systems 337% year Disk to disk backup
FalconStor Software 34% year Backup software
Hynix Semiconductor 48% quarter Flash
Incentra Solutions 56% 9 months Storage Services
Inotera Memories 44% quarter RAM
Intransa 100% year iSCSI
Network Appliance 36% 9 months NAS
ONStor 157% quarter NAS
RELDATA 300% year iSCSI
SanDisk 41% year Flash
Silicon Image 39% year Storage processors
STEC 38% 9 months Solid State Disks
Texas Memory Systems 80% year Solid State Disks
Transcend Information 166% month Solid State Disks
Voltaire 194% quarter (Q207) InfiniBand
Western Digital 46% quarter ended Dec 07 Hard disk drives
notes - If you think your company also qualifies for inclusion in the above list contact the publisher by email.
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WD Reports 46% Hard Drive Revenue Growth
LAKE FOREST, Calif - January 23, 2008 - Western Digital Corp. today reported that hard drive revenue grew year on year by 46% to $2.084 billion for the 2nd quarter ending Dec. 28, 2007.

In addition WD got $120 million of revenue from media and substrate sales. Overall net income was $305 million. WD shipped over 34 million hard drives in the quarter. One fast growing application segment was the PVR/DVR market which took 8.7 million 2.5" drives and 4.1 million 3.5" units.

WD's president and CEO John Coynesaid "Our operational flexibility and our technology leadership in 2.5" mobile hard drives enabled us to quickly react to a number of attractive market and product mix opportunities throughout the December quarter." ...Western Digital profile

Editor's comments:-
WD's impressive results (and Seagate's 14% growth reported last week) account for most of the hard disk revenue worldwide and suggest that my article last year How Solid is Hard Disk's Future? was correct in saying that the hard disk market revenue could sustainably grow at double digits at the same time as the solid state disk market grows at triple digits.

That article includes a market model which explains why the simplistic "replacement of HDDs by SSDs" - often cited by part time storage commentators is nowhere near describing the full picture.

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