IDC: External disk storage up
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Worldwide sales of external disk storage systems hit $3.5 billion in the second quarter, up 8 percent from the same period a year ago, according to research firm IDC.
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Lacie today introduced a new series of external harddrives with SATA interface at the SMAU trade show in Milan, Italy. The drives are available in capacities up to 400 GByte.
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Device features two optical drives and a 160GB hard drive for storing content.
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4.8TB in one array - but are these drives getting too big? IP-based storage is thoroughly enterprise-ready, claimed iSCSI specialist EqualLogic as it doubled the capacity of its high-end SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) storage box with almost no change in price.â¦
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Hard drives store 30GB and more in 1.3-inch packages.
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Unless you're HP The worldâs insatiable appetite for storing compliance data, viral emails and jpegs of Britney helped the external storage market boost revenues another 7 per cent in the third quarter.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Enterprises are reaching deeper into their pockets to add data storage capacity to their computer networks, according to an industry report released Friday. Worldwide revenue for external disk storage systems rose to $4.3 billion in the third quarter of 2006, a 9.9 percent increase compared to the same period last year, according to the research firm IDC. This is the 14th consecutive quarter of storage revenue growth, a trend IDC attributes to more companies buying storage because of the demand to save more data, and to existing customers buying larger capacity systems. "There is definitely a bump in the quarter on the systems side," said Brad Nisbet, manager of IDC's Storage Systems Program. Sales growth has been particularly strong for midrange-priced systems while flat for high-end systems, Nisbet said. While the cost per megabyte of storage has continued to decline, the average selling price of systems has continued to rise because enterprises are buying larger and larger capacity storage. The market share rankings of the top storage vendors were unchanged in the latest report. EMCÂ kept the No. 1 spot with a 21.4 percent share on an 18 percent increase in revenue over the year-ago quarter to $927 million. Hewlett-Packard ranked second with a 17.6 percent share on only a modest 1.8 percent revenue increase to $760 million. Third place went to IBM, with a 13.7 percent share. Dell, which sells co-branded Dell/EMC storage, ranked fourth with an 8 percent share, and Hitachi Data SystemsÂ was in fifth place with a 7.9 percent share. The entire disk storage systems market grew 7.9 percent to $6.186 billion. In the overall market, the top five vendors, in order of share, were HP, IBM, EMC, Dell, and Hitachi. Also of note, the market for storage area network (SAN) technology grew 17.3 percent. The SAN market excludes sales of network-attached storage (NAS), in which servers are liked to just one storage appliance. SAN refers to a larger network of multiple storage devices that are grouped together as a single resource. In particular, storage networks linked together with iSCSI (for Internet Small Computer System Interface) connections showed dramatic growth of 108.4 percent over the third quarter of 2005. IDC attributes that growth to the ease of use and low total cost of ownership of iSCSI-based networks compared Fibre Channel-connected storage. The IDC report excludes sales of tape storage technology.ADVERTISEMENTNEW IT SERVICES FROM IBM: EASIER TO BUY AND IMPLEMENTDiscover a simpler, more cost-effective way to get the solutions your company needs to grow more flexible and efficient.
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Adds RAID too Western Digital has bumped its My Book World Edition remote-access ready network-connected external hard drive to 1TB, adding the extra storage capacity with a second disk inside the casing. So not only is there more room for information, the unit's RAID-able for better data security.â¦
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BOFFINS AND boffinettes at Imperial College London are developing a new optical disk that can store a terabyte of data. The Multiplexed Optical Data Storage (Mods)technology is expected to be released towards
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Ziff Davis - New software programs enable storage silos to connect with one another.
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Iomega introduces enhancements to its dual-interface line of eGo external, portable hard disk drives.
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(Source: Diskeeper) Why is defragmentation so important? IDC took an in-depth look at disk fragmentation, the problems it creates, and how that translates to lost time and productivity on a massive scale. Download this IDC white paper, sponsored by Diskeeper Corporation, and see why defragmentation is crucial to maintaining productivity and controlling costs.
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Storage management offerings on tap from Microsoft Corp. and Veritas Software Corp. aim to extend data replication, archiving and indexing capabilities to accelerate backup and recovery operations.
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A new technology capable of storing the equivalent of 100 DVDs on a single DVD-sized disc has been unveiled by researchers from London&#39;s Imperial College.
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Booting up in Âsafe modeÂ; how to record vinyl records onto a PC; external floppy drives.
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The MiniStation is just another well-designed and fairly cheap USB drive based around a standard 2.5-in. disk drive with capacities ranging from 80GB to 300GB.
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(InfoWorld) - DellÂ and MicrosoftÂ rolled out a new storage system on Wednesday for file and application data that integrates hardware and software from both vendors. The system pairs Dell's PowerVault NX1950, a serial-attached SCSI (SAS) back-end storage array that can use up to 45 drives, with Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003, a file server and package of management tools. The companies said the paired products are aimed at the midrange and include advanced management tools. Together, the products eliminate the need for separate licenses for additional features such as snapshots, replication and resource management. The system starts at $17,000 with a configuration for 4.5TB of storage at $24,000. It will work with Windows, Unix, Linux, and Macintosh systems. Dell also announced a new member to its PowerVault line, the MD3000, aimed for high-performance tasks such as serving up video or applications with high transactional performance needs, such as databases and e-mail. The company said the product is the first external RAID (redundant array of independent disks) SAS array from a Tier 1 vendor. The MD3000 is capable of 1,400MBps of throughput and approximately 90,000 input/output operations per second, Dell said. Pricing for the MD3000 starts at $6,499. Â