EMC, a global leader in information infrastructure, continues to be a top source ofor external disk storage systems in terms of factory revenue for 14 years now, says the latest IDC Worldwide Quarterly Disk Storage Systems Tracker. It has acquired shares from key markets it serves, as well as delivered an array of new technologies to cope with inflating markets associated with virtualization, next generation backup, cloud computing and big data.

EMC has been reigning as a top supplier of external disk storage market in terms terabytes shipped as well, and managed to retain its leadership in the external RAID, total open networked storage (NAS combined with Open/iSCSI SAN), open Storage Area Network (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS) markets. Not only did EMC manage to remain on top, it’s also showing significant progress on a year-over-year basis.

EMC is said to have to have the most comprehensive and sophisticated products offered, winning market shares. More than $2 billion in research and development were invested by the company last year, allowing it to span across channel ecosystem and internal sales infrastructure quite significantly. It has released 40 new products and technologies last year alone.

“EMC continues to lead the market because customers and partners believe in our strategy, vision and ability to execute. The technology innovations and investments EMC made in 2010 are clearly being embraced by customers on their journey to the cloud,” said Pat Gelsinger, President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products.

“We entered 2011 putting even greater distance between ourselves and our competitors across our storage portfolio with the new EMC VNX family of unified storage systems, new and enhanced products in our backup and archiving portfolio, and powerful new software offerings for our flagship VMAX™ storage system. As customers continue to virtualize their data centers and standardize their consolidated environments onto a small number of trusted vendors, we believe EMC stands out as a best-of-breed and best VMware-integrated information infrastructure provider.”

This is a good start, considering that EMC is expecting to grow its revenue by 65 percent by 2014, as they consistently provide efficient ways to store and manage data efficiently and cost-effectively. Their acquisitions will also greatly impact their future expansion in rapidly growing storage market areas. The company was said to come from humble roots, being a vendor of minicomputer memory. A chain of partnerships and acquisitions and the VMware acquisition has launched EMC to success. Even in the event of VMware’s IPO, EMC still managed to hold the company tightly, retaining 80% ownership.