Gartner's April 2009 report, Market Share: Network Attached Storage/Unified Storage, Worldwide, 2009, has acknowledged Netgear, a provider of networking solutions, as the worldwide leader in sub-$5,000 business Network-Attached Storage (NAS) systems. As per the report, the networking vendor also ranks among the top six vendors in the overall business NAS market.

"We believe Gartner's evaluation represents our strong presence and robust growth in the storage market. More importantly, we feel this report recognizes the strength and quality of the ReadyNAS line of storage appliances. We're fully committed to delivering our SMB customers and channel partners the most advanced and reliable storage platforms in the industry," said Drew Meyer, Director (Storage Product Marketing), Netgear.

In the report, Gartner compared NAS/unified storage solution vendors' end-of-year results from 2008 to those of 2007 and found that Netgear consistently ranked highly.

For vendors with solutions priced at less than $5,000, Netgear had taken 23 percent of the market share in terms of vendor revenue. Amongst vendors with solutions priced at less than $25,000, the vendor was ranked third in vendor revenue, delivering a revenue growth rate in excess of 127 percent.

Atul Jain, Country Manager, India and SAARC, Netgear, said, "Although Netgear had been providing enterprise storage products for a longtime, it was very much underestimated. Thanks to Gartner that they have tracked our success and growth. It will surely give confidence to the customers and the channel partners to invest in Netgear storage products. Our focus is to serve the SMB market with solutions that is in and around the networking. Today, storage is an integrated part of the networks. We are happy that we have been pretty successful in providing the right solutions for the SMBs."