Information Technology and Communications research
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 »
IBM today launches a number of market-leading hardware products based on its new, third generation, FlashCore Module. Not content just to keep technically ahead of its competitors, it continues to work hard to integrate these offerings into its wider approach to hybrid multi-cloud computing, its cyber resiliency services and new […] Read more »
A look at spending, changes and supplier market shares in enterprise and service provider networks Read more »
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 »
Some stats and thoughts about the storage systems market in the first half of 2019 Read more »
A look at ITCandor's latest findings for the service provider and enterprise network markets to Q2 2019 Read more »
I take a look at IBM's new mainframe storage Read more »
Analysis of IBM storage division announcements on April 2nd 2019 Read more »
A look at the implications of IBM Storage division's Q1 2019 announcements Read more »
A review of IBM Storage division's Q3 2018 announcements Read more »
A look at IBM's NVMe-based flash controller and systems 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 »
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 »
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 »
Bridgeworks introduces the first 40Gb iSCSI-to-FC protocol bridge - a bit technical, but important for connecting old and new data centre equipment 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 »