Noted Gartner Dataquest analyst Carolyn DiCenzo released her annual report about the state of the storage market. DiCenzo found that the storage software market segment has shifted from 80 percent backup and recovery...
The year 2000 was extraordinary for storage companies. The Y2K scare might have led companies to invest in technology projects, but once Y2K was over, companies began still more major IT projects, spending much of...
If you ask several technology devotees about InfiniBand, you're likely to elicit blank looks because the name and the technology are new. InfiniBand is the server bus standard that will replace the aging PCI bus, the...
The upcoming version of the Windows OS, formerly known as Whistler but now branded Windows XP, contains several new storage-related features that many users will find valuable. Because I haven't yet tested beta...
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is developing important projects to help storage vendors' products interoperate. SNIA recently announced that it has created a Supported Solutions Forum, whose goal...
Having grown up in the 1960s, I remember Tandberg as the Norwegian company that made some of the best tape decks and stereo equipment. Tandberg has a subsidiary—Tandberg Data (see the first URL at the end of the...
Several vendors have released server appliances based on Microsoft's Windows 2000 Embedded Server Appliance Kit (SAK). Microsoft offers a complete embedded OS that developers can use for a variety of applications, and...
First, in a more personal and informal way than the Storage UPDATE survey we ran recently, I want to gather more information about you and your storage deployments. I hope to learn more about you, so I can tailor...
DVD standards have been a source of contention for the past 4 years, and the battle rages on. Most people agree that the writable and the rewritable versions of the format will be primary, yet they dispute how to...
In this week's column, I offer a third set of results from the recent Storage UPDATE survey, including the figures for Network Attached Storage (NAS) deployments, Storage-over-IP (SoIP), and use of Storage Service...