EMEA External Disk Storage Systems Market Records a Sluggish 2014 First Quarter

LONDON and PRAGUE, June 16, 2014 — The external disk storage systems market value in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) was down 1.4% year over year in terms of user value, according to the latest EMEA Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker from International Data Corporation (IDC). The dollar per gigabyte declined about 30% year on year, increasing shipped storage capacity by over 40% to a value just shy of 2.5 exabytes. (TZ)

Western Europe : Western Europe declined 1% year on year, interrupting the positive trend built up in the last three quarters. “Western Europe’s sluggish performance is down to deferred customer orders in view of model renewals, as well as still weak economies across the region,” said Silvia Cosso, storage systems analyst with IDC Western Europe. “From a price band perspective, the high-end class dropped heavily for the fourth quarter in a row, as customers are shifting to the midrange. This trend is also aggravated by seasonality factors, with large accounts pushing back investments later in the year.”

From a country perspective, traditionally strong economies such as France and most of the Nordics were on the negative side, while trends in crisis-battered economies such as the Iberian Peninsula, Greece, and Ireland remained volatile — a sign that the recovery could still be some way off. Overall, with France progressively losing ground since the second quarter of 2013, the Western European market is increasingly dependent on Germany and the U.K., both of which recorded single-digit growth.

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