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Channel Best-Sellers: Software
10:00 AM EST Fri. Nov. 23, 2007
From the November 26, 2007 issue of CRN
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Symantec was right in that solution providers and end- user customers more readily recognize the Veritas brand name, as seen in the most recent CMP Channel Best Sellers data from the NPD Group/Distributor Track which includes GTDC distributor data.
According to that survey, 55.3 percent of storage management software being sold through distribution went out under the Veritas name in the first half of this year, compared to only 47.7 percent during the same period in 2006.
However, distribution sales of Symantec-branded storage management software fell even more to a 9.5 percent share of the market, compared to 18.9 percent last year.
That overall drop of Symantec/Veritas market share through distribution probably resulted from legacy issues related to Symantec's takeover of Veritas, said one solution provider, who preferred to remain anonymous.
Rob Wolfe, president and CEO of AvcomEast, a Vienna, Va.-based solution provider, said he is pleased with the support from Symantec's field reps and channel engineers, regardless of whether the product is branded Symantec or Veritas. "Their margins and programs are really good," he said. "Partner compensation is terrific, as long as we use their deal registration program."
The battle for second place in the storage management software distribution market saw a big change as IBM passed CA to grab the No. 2 position.
Pete Elliot, director of marketing at Key Information Systems, a Woodland Hills, Calif.-based IBM solution provider, said the only thing holding back IBM Tivoli-branded storage management software was the fact that customers tend to be mainly all-IBM shops.
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Storage Management Software
* Ranking based on 1st half 2007 share of sales dollar volume. Highlighted vendor gained greatest share from 1st half 2006 to 1st half 2007 Source: The NPD Group/Distribution Track (Incudes GTDC Data), www.npd.com/lps/distributortrack |
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