Enterprise flash storage is being bought in increasing numbers, and new enterprise flash products are emerging from vendors old and new to meet that demand. The key drivers in the enterprise flash market are a combination of the falling cost of fl...
IFF Research conducts research for a wide variety of private- and public-sector clients in the UK. Faced with growing amounts of data, the company recently virtualised 90% of its IT infrastructure in a VMware environment to help cut costs. The com...
Late last year I pondered how storage might look in five years’ time. I looked at the effects of server and desktop virtualisation on storage, noting that the needs of virtualisation had given shared storage a leg-up to near ubiquity among organis...
Unified storage has come to mean the delivery of block and file storage from within a single platform. The initial incarnation of these devices consisted of a block storage array with the addition of a file gateway, enabling both file and block pr...
The market for midrange and SMB backup software is driven by two -- sometimes competing -- priorities. Medium-sized companies want systems that are simple enough to deploy without specialist skills but sophisticated enough to manage mixed virtual,...
The midrange SAN market caters for small- and medium-sized businesses and small enterprises whose data requirements aren’t necessarily diminutive. Businesses can be relatively small in headcount, but financial transactions or scientific processing...
AutoVirt shut its doors this month, leaving people in the industry to wonder what the future holds for file virtualization. AutoVirt followed other file virtualization companies and products to the grave. Industry experts say IT managers have a ha...
The top 5 cloud storage trends of 2011 reflect a young market searching for acceptance while the number of options and features continued to expand. Like many emerging technologies, hype still outpaces reality, but reality is hustling to catch up....
