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Cloud Storage: The On-going War to Lock in the Most Customers

By Dick Weisinger

Forrester calculated and compared the costs of storing 100 terabytes of data with on-premise storage versus cloud storage and found that the cloud option came in at 74 percent cheaper than the on-premise solution.  Those results appeared in a whitepaper

Storage 2013: Trends in the Forecast for the Storage Market

By Dick Weisinger

As 2013 begins, we’re anything but in short supply with predictions about where the storage market is going for the new year.  It’s clear that many opinions abound.  Storage 2013 predictions, for example, were made by ITBusinessEdge InfoStore/ITBusinessEdge/StorageForum, Chris Poelker

Storage: The Amazon Solution to Long Term Data Archival

By Dick Weisinger

Amazon is targeting a new market with the release of their Amazon Glacier service: long-term data archival.  The new service could seeks to revolutionize the archival market.  Glacier archival costs are significantly cheaper than traditional archival methods, and it is

Storage: IT Fights Back to Slow Explosive Storage Demands

By Dick Weisinger

Technologies like business analytics and Big Data are increasing the amounts of data that business need to store. For example, Syed Masroor, Head of technology and solutions at NetApp India, recently told ComputerWorld that Netapp has always “firmly believed that the entire

Storage: Innovation in Data Storage — the Engine Behind Big Data

By Dick Weisinger

Big data and the current wave of data analytics is a direct result of the explosive growth of data that’s been occurring over the last decade.  And the ability to collect massive amounts of data has been directly enabled by