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Storage: Sales Starting to Move Back On Track

By Dick Weisinger

The storage market saw a glimmer of hope in the fourth quarter of 2009.  That was the first quarter of year-over-year market growth in one year, although .2 percent growth is a bit anemic.  IDC reported that in the fourth

Storage: VC Money Flows to Big Data and Storage Start ups

By Dick Weisinger

2009 was a bad year for VC monies flowing into new startups.  Some analysts warn that 2011 and 2012 will be years short on innovation since the pipeline leading up to innovative new products dried up beginning in the fall

Data Virtualization Unifies Enterprise Data

By Dick Weisinger

Data fragmentation across repositories is a problem that plagues most companies and is a problem that has been around for almost as long as companies have been using computers. The source of the problem is the use of multiple repositories.

Storage: A Terabyte isn't What it Used to be

By Dick Weisinger

Times were if anyone talked about data sets that verged on being as large as a terabyte of data there was a sort of awe just thinking about the possibly of collecting and actively using that much data.  Times have

Storage and Technology: Data Centers Running Low on Power

By Dick Weisinger

The need by organizations to store increasingly large amounts of data are putting a huge strain on data centers.  Consider just one piece of the data puzzle — emails.  John Shackleton, CEO of Open Source, estimates that with large enterprises