As EMC targets the unified storage market, among the fastest growing segments in the datastorage industry, the firm has the opportunity to further expand its leading share in the externaldatastorage market (in GB).
NetApp, the third largest vendor of externaldatastorage systems in the world after EMC and IBM, said the acquisition will help it win business in the rapidly growing bandwidth intensive video and high-performance computing markets.
Eventually, Dutra says, Sun plans to reduce those numbers to zero, renting out the company's processing and storage capabilities from externaldata centers.