Information Technology and Communications research
Following closely on the heels of the DS8900 launch last month, IBM announced some major storage products (both hardware and software) today at the TechU conference in Prague. My analysis here is based not only on briefing material from Eric Herzog and his team, but also from my visit to […] Read more »
A quick look at Aparavi - a supplier of software for data retention and archiving. Read more »
The challenges of data management in 2018 Read more »
My eighth 2018 prediction is about how the rapid exponential growth in raw storage capacities is making a nonsense of most storage system supplier strategies. Read more »
A look at IBM's storage strategy and August product announcements Read more »
Storage systems markets continue to wane Read more »
Some market stats on the storage systems and component markets Read more »
For an update to this data please click here. Over the last few years there’s been shift in spending away from storage arrays and towards raw storage. I expect this to continue in 2016. In total the market will grow by 2% to $115B, with the strongest growth in raw […] Read more »
Zadara is a small storage company offering SAN and NAS storage through Cloud services Read more »
Basho's Riak is an Open Source database, Riak CS is Cloud storage software. It's added lots of new features in Version 2.0 Read more »
HDS makes less noise than many systems vendors, but has some important server, storage and services offerings Read more »
We give a quick guide to the IBM STG announcements on June 10th 2013 Read more »
In a complex, fragmented market with over 500 players IBM has a full and well thought out approach to IT security. We spent a day finding out. Read more »
IBM announces its IBM FlashSystem arrays and argues strongly for the use of all-flash storage from a systems perspective Read more »
SolidFire is adding Qaulity of Service to storage allowing Cloud Service Providers and aggregators to offer quaranteed performance for customers of multi-tenanted solutions Read more »
SAP launches its Business Suite on HANA, stretching in-memory databases to industry sector ERP. Read our analysis. Read more »
What are the chances of success for ARM chips in servers? We weigh up the pros and cons Read more »
Hadoop - developments, public Cloud customers and the system suppliers' chances in unlocking business from enterprises Read more »
Everyone knows SSD/flash memory is disruptive and important, but where to put it? For IBM the answer is to use its TMS acquisition to build it into integrated systems and under its SAN Volume Controller storage hypervisor Read more »
There are three streams of development for Cloud Computing - Lamp, Azure and JAVA. In this analyst report ITCandor shows the evolving ecosystem, with help from AMD. Read more »