IDC, IDC, o crystal ball. Who's storage's biggest cheese of them all?

IDC’s number crunchers have crunched their quarterly enterprise storage numbers and found HPE has done very well, while the storage market has declined somewhat and ODM supply to hyperscalers has plunged downwards. The overall enterprise storage market was worth $8.2bn in the first 2016 quarter, down seven per cent on a year …

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Chris,

can you please expand on the difference between total enterprise systems and external storage systems? Just trying to understand the difference in what these numbers are telling me.