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Big Data and Storage: Will Storage Costs Constrain Big Data Growth?

By Dick Weisinger

Big Data is putting strains on businesses trying to find the storage space to house all the new data that’s being collected. A survey by Tarmin today found that 66 percent of businesses say that they’re under pressure to store increasingly huge

Cloud Storage: Will Storage Eventually Be Free?

By Dick Weisinger

The cloud data storage market, both public and private, is currently on the order of $13.57 billion in 2014, growing at a compound annual rate of 33.1 percent, and on target to exceed $57 billion in market size by 2019,

Data Storage: Do You Know Where to Find Your Most Sensitive Data?

By Dick Weisinger

Do you know where your data is?  Not just any data, but the most sensitive and critical data that your company depends on?  In a global survey of IT professionals, only 16 percent said that they could locate that information.

Storage: Weak Sales of External Storage in 2013

By Dick Weisinger

Gartner reports that global external storage sales increased just five percent in the fourth quarter of 2013 compared to the fourth quarter in 2012.  2013 fourth quarter external storage revenues totaled $6.3 billion,and total sales for all of 2013 came

Health Care Data Storage: Health Care IT Executives Worry about Rapid Data Growth

By Dick Weisinger

Over the next two years, data managed by health care providers about their patients and their businesses is expected to increase dramatically.  Three drivers for the huge uptake of data, as identified in an Iron Mountain report on HIMSS analytics,