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Storage: A year in review
Comment Its analysts predicted the European market for Storage Area Networks (SANs) would grow from $1.92bn last year to $64.11bn in 2006. February was apparently good news for companies with extended storage requirements - especially the growing number of... [19 Dec 2000]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Storage meets business
Comment Like IT itself, a recent trend in storage is to make it strongly influenced by business priorities. For a while, there was a danger that (like many good ideas) it would be turned into a sales vehicle by the storage vendors' marketing departments. [11 Jun 2004]
Through the fog... Storage as a service
Comment Storage can seem so boring but the message is clear - ignore the latest developments at your peril. Here, Quocirca analyst Jon Collins argues that, at its most critical, storage is all about software these days… [04 Apr 2003]
Leader: Storage - truly a small business issue
Leader If these two giants are developing their successful alliance by selling storage area network (SAN) infrastructure to companies for at least $5,000 a pop - which they are - we can assume those small companies aren't so small they're IT laggards. [27 May 2004]
What's the fuss about... storage networking?
Comment Nice dream - and it is the vision for storage networking, in all its forms. Can't blag your way through a storage networking conversation? The most fundamental storage management application is (still) back-up and restore, with the most important... [06 Sep 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Egg payments, the ultra-PC and Cisco the storage company?
Comment Over recent times storage has become a lot more complex and a number of new names have sprung to prominence, especially in networked storage environments, where the likes of Brocade, DataCore, McData and Vixel have made a significant impact. [26 Apr 2002]
The Bloor Perspective: Touchy-feely PCs, HP and, like, storage man, and Citrix's big idea
Comment HP's key storage management software tools include HP Openview Storage Accountant and HP Openview Storage Allocater. It will be interesting to observe how the HP (and Compaq) storage story develops over the next year. [17 Sep 2001]
Crossing the Channel: What IP can do for storage
Comment IP is boosting the distance limitations of traditional storage networking technologies, claims Anthony Plewes. Until recently, Fibre Channel has been the only networking technology ideally suited to storage, with speeds between processors and disk... [02 Sep 2003]
Leader: iPod as storage cure-all
Leader Beneath the teen-centric, volume-heavy, oh-so-cool veneer of the music player beats the heart of a storage-strapped IT manager's dream. The latest converts to the iPod-as-portable-storage gang are the UK police and military, one software maker... [16 Mar 2005]
How ecommerce has repainted the storage landscape
Comment Ecommerce is adding to the storage needs of Internet companies and traditional businesses alike - and storage vendors are doing their best to capitalise on this increase in demand. For example, EMC launched its 'E-proven' initiative in October last... [10 Jan 2000]
Sexy storage: EMC highlights a quiet boom
Comment Shareholders and - painfully - some of the storage giant's rivals may well think the company is as bullet-proof as its high-end products, especially given some tough times across the industry and a senseless aversion to many high-tech stocks. [23 Jan 2001]
The best of 'Reader Comments': mobile phone masts on churches, IT directors on the up and air-tight storage
Comment And finally, the now strategic nature of storage was obvious from feedback on a story about how much money is now wasted on it (http://www.silicon.com/a41286 ) Surely there's a hidden issue here - granted, there are managers who aren't spending a... [07 Dec 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Oracle marches on, Oftel's dilemma and Sun storage under the microscope
Comment Jiro may have its technical merits and it may have the buy in of other organisations, but it appears that the possibility of a truly open storage environment is a long way off yet. Sun has announced a new storage strategy and a new product line... [26 Aug 2000]
The Bloor Perspective: Ganging up on Microsoft, corporate honesty and a painful storage spat
Comment Storage: why McData is suing Brocade When it comes to the new world of storage networking Brocade and McData immediately spring to mind. McData, once upon a time a subsidiary of EMC, the proverbial storage 800-pound gorilla, has a huge share of the... [24 Feb 2002]
What's the fuss about... virtualised IT infrastructure?
Comment From applications to storage to that all-encompassing future we know as web services, virtualisation is making strides. The second is to have sufficient storage resource to cope with the amount of data that needs to be managed day by day. [20 Sep 2002]
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