According to IDC, the storage industry market share is $6 Billion and the ISCSI SAN market is currently growing at a rate of 25% per year

[dean peters]

According to IDC, the storage industry market share is $6 Billion and
the ISCSI SAN market is currently growing at a rate of 25% per
year(*1).www.GigaSecond.com(*2) SAN Arrays are also thebackbone of all
cloud computing models. Gartner believes that by 2012, at least 14
percent of the infrastructure and operations architecture of Fortune
1000 companies will
be managed and delivered by some type of cloud computing environment
(Virtualization
Environments). In a separate report, IDC states that spending in the
virtualization sector
will reach $15 billion next year (2011) and a 43% growth rate(*3)

1
http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Storage/Storage-Market-Continues-Decline-iSCSI-a-Bright-Spot-251310/
2
http://www.gigasecond.com
3
http://www.oracle-vm.com/?p=43