An update of the resurgent raw storage (HDD, NAND and DRAM) market with details of spending and capacity shipments from ITCandor. Read more »
Raw storage spending soars by 54% in Q2 2024 – the recovery continues
Infinidat launches fourth generation InfiniBoxes and InfuzeOS V8
Infinidat launches its fourth generation storage arrays and version 8 of its Infuze operating software Read more »
6. Spending on raw storage will begin to grow again, following two years of dramatic decline
I’m nervous to make predictions around raw storage devices following the failures I’ve made here over the last couple of years. There’s no doubt that these markets have proved highly volatile since the pandemic, when not enough of these components were made to meet demand and then were over produced. […] Read more »
Infinidat strengthens its modern enterprise storage system solutions
A look at the offerings and strategy of Infinidat - an exciting new storage systems vendor Read more »
Storage capacity shipments fall – the end of exponential growth?
Poor performance in the sales of raw data storage devices is contributing to the softness of the current ITC market; does this represent a temporary or permanent change in the storage market? Read more »
Storage systems – sales steady, but uncoupled from raw storage growth
A look at the size, growth and major suppliers of storage systems in 2022. Read more »
Peer Software GFS – software for handling exponential storage growth
An introduction to Peer Software's GFS Read more »
Storage systems 2021 – stable spending in a sea of change
The worldwide storage systems hardware market grew by just 2% in 2021 to reach $34.8 billion, which proved yet again that the success of these products has become increasingly unconnected with that of raw storage, which grew by 19% growth in the year. My Figure above shows total spending by […] Read more »
Raw storage in 2021 reaches 3.6ZB capacity, $182B spending, 1B shipments
A look at the raw storage market for HDD, NAND and DRAM in 2021 Read more »
Raw storage shipped capacity exceeds 4 Zetabytes in 2022
The capacity of raw storage shipped continues to grow exponentially (see my Figure above). In 2022 this growth will create 4 Zetabytes of capacity – a massive amount so large that it’s difficult to comprehend. Read more »
Storage systems hardware and software, raw storage trends and market shares
My latest shares, trends and analysis of the global storage market Read more »
Storage systems – 1.8ZB shipped, $33.4b spent in 2019
A sizing of the storage systems and raw storage markets in 2019 Read more »
IBM radically simplifies its storage offerings in Q1 2020
ITCandor's assessment of IBM storage announcement on Feb 12th 2020 Read more »
Storage systems – calm in a stormy storage sea
Some stats and thoughts about the storage systems market in the first half of 2019 Read more »
Storage sales $199b in 2018 – exponential capacity growth, increasing software control
A look at the balance between raw and system storage markets Read more »
IBM Q1 2019 storage announcements – security and AI for hybrid multi-cloud customers
A look at the implications of IBM Storage division's Q1 2019 announcements Read more »
IBM Storage October 2018 – Gen3 V7000, Spectrum Discover launched
A review of IBM Storage division's Q3 2018 announcements Read more »
Storage – the raw v system dichotomy
Some 2017 sizing, shares and forecast from ITCandor's storage research Read more »
8. Storage commoditisation puts more suppliers out of business
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 »
Micron SolidScale – now that’s what I call Big Data!
Micron steps out as a storage systems supplier with the first ever boxed NVMeoF solution Read more »