Report: Storage-Resource Management Drives Industry Growth
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Storage-resource management software is, for the first time, the leading growth driver in the overall storage-software market, according to IDC's Worldwide Quarterly Storage Software Tracker.
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(Source: 3PAR) Here's an information-packed white paper from TheInfoPro (TIP) that delivers findings from one-on-one interviews with Fortune 1000 storage professionals. The paper explains how the deployment of tiered storage has driven the need for data migration in Fortune 1000 companies, and why those enterprises are now looking for more mature storage solutions that minimize complexity while harnessing the full value of tiered storage. It's must-read research for IT strategists who are looking to meet their business drivers for low-cost storage and high availability.
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New Hitachi drive represents a giant leap forward in  notebook storage.
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IT managers on hand for this week's Storage Decisions conference said they are working ever harder to consolidate storage-area networks, attain a single view of their infrastructure and increase the amount of online disk storage.
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The latest research from the company claims PC makers are accelerating their move to solid state memory, with hybrid drives being the early market entry choice.
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Some attendees at the Storage Networking World conference say they're combining backup software and de-duplication technology with virtual systems in an effort to manage ever increasing data stores.
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Storage vendors Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, EMC, and Microsoft are trumpeting new products this week that foreshadow the near future of storage.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. HPQ.N and   Sun Microsystems Inc. SUNW.O were among the fastest-growing   data storage providers in the second quarter, while EMC Corp.   EMC.N and Dell Inc. DELL.O lagged overall market growth,   researcher IDC said on Thursday.
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With the price of disk storage plummeting, the storage capacity administrators find themselves managing is set to explode. But, the simple introduction of network block virtualization permits the use of underutilized storage management technologies such as mirroring, snapshots and replication on a much broader scale.
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Well, it grew a bit, says IDC Research house IDC reckons the worldwide storage market reached $4.8bn last year - a six per cent growth on last year.â¦
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Worldwide server revenues grew 5.5 percent year-over-year in the third quarter, led by strong demand for volume systems, according to research firm IDC.
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(InfoWorld) - IBM earns bragging rights for surpassing Hewlett-PackardÂ in 2006 storage hardware sales, though it still trails industry leader EMC, according to an industry report published Tuesday. IBM's market share in the global external-controller disk storage market, based on revenue, grew to 15.8 percent in 2006, from 14.5 percent in 2005, while HP's share dropped to 13.1 percent from 14.7 percent. That elevates IBM to second place behind storage market share leader EMC Corp., which grew its market share to 24.8 percent last year from 23.4 percent in 2005. "I think the records will reflect that it's been about 10 years since we passed HP," said Andy Monshaw, general manager of IBM storage. As recently as five years ago, HP had a 15-point storage market share lead over IBM. Monshaw credited a refreshed product line, a focus on selling systems rather than individual products and increased selling to the small-to-medium business market for IBM's results. HP Chairman, CEO, and President Mark HurdÂ acknowledged the weaknessÂ in his company's storage business during a presentation at a Morgan Stanley Technology Conference Monday. HP's storage revenue grew only 3 percent in its fiscal first quarter, ended Jan. 31, which Hurd attributed to the fact that much of its product line is tape storage, a declining business. However, sales of its EVA line of disk storage products grew 18 percent in the quarter. Hurd also said duringÂ the company's quarterly earnings reportÂ Feb. 20, that HP needs toÂ expand its storage sales force. "We just don't cover enough accounts," Hurd said. The rest of the storage sellers in the Gartner report, ranked by 2006 market share, are the following: Hitachi Data Systems, 9.6 percent; Dell, 7.6 percent; Network Appliance, 7.2 percent; and Sun Microsystems, 6.1 percent. Gartner noted that the storage market is increasingly dominated by the top players and is driven by industry consolidation, more effective marketing and strong channel partnerships. The top seven storage vendors accounted for 84.2 percent of the market in 2006, up from 81. 5 percent in 2006.
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At Storage Networking World (SNW) in Orlando this week, several storage vendors are adding to their arsenal of products and technologies aimed at IT managers dealing with the explosion of data storage.
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Company is using perpendicular recording technology to pack more data onto 2.5-inch hard disks.
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NEW YORK - Now that digital music players have evolved beyond the ability to store 20 gigabytes worth of music, storage capacity memory is no longer the only factor to consider before buying.
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TechWeb - The worldwide external controller-based disk storage market grew in the second quarter of this year compared to the same quarter last year, but the growth was enjoyed by a handful of major vendors at the expense of their smaller peers. Gartner Dataquest on Thursday published a part of its second quarter research results showing the market for external controller-based disk storage, which includes hardware but no software or services, rose 4.3 percent over the same quarter of 2005 to reach a total of $3.6 billion. ...
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A novel method of optical data storage could soon be used to hold a terabyte of data on a disk the size of a normal DVD, say researchers at Imperial College London, UK.