Gartner, the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company, recently published its Market Share: Network-Attached Storage/Unified Storage Worldwide 2010 report. In 2010, NETGEAR took the lead in the $0 to $5,000 market segment, advanced two positions in the low-end (under $25,000) segment and moved up two positions in the total market. This report reflects NETGEAR’s leadership in this global storage market, ranking it squarely in the company of the largest storage vendors.

“Worldwide vendor revenue for the low-end network-attached storage and unified storage market increased 18.4% in 2010 compared with 2009 to over $1.2 billion. The estimated low-end iSCSI SAN portion of the unified storage market grew 60% to $113 million,” research director in the Gartner data systems group Pushan Rinnen.

“The estimated pure NAS market grew 37.4% to $3.7 billion.”

“As a growing financial institution we must deliver top-notch secure service to our customers with a fraction of the resources of our larger competitors,” says CheckSpring Bank IT manager Joshua Garcia, an innovative community bank developing groundbreaking services for under-banked New Yorkers.

“NETGEAR’s smart approach to IT contrasted strongly with our legacy storage vendor’s proposal. We built a virtual infrastructure without sacrificing quality or hiring new staff, and paid half the price with added functionality. Big IT just isn’t the answer for companies like ours.”

“Global small to mid-sized customers are reducing costs by examining alternatives to traditional enterprise IT vendors. The economic recovery demands smart IT solutions that are reliable, affordable and simple,” says NETGEAR senior product line manager Mark Song.

“The cost and complexity promoted by large enterprise storage vendors is growing steadily less relevant to the mid-sized customers, and we are very pleased to have Gartner confirm our advances in the storage market.”