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Storage: Sales Growing Again After Weak 2009

By Dick Weisinger

Despite a drop in year-over-year revenues in sales of storage devices in 2009, the actual capacity of storage systems sold actually grew 33 percent in 2009.  The storage market finished the year at $7.3 billion in sales.  Units with a

Technology: Dealing with 'Big Data'

By Dick Weisinger

The amount of data that companies and individuals are creating is growing incredibly quickly.  Some organizations have managed to collect massive data sets.  O’Reilly refers to these huge data sets as ‘Big Data’ — data sets that are in the

Storage: Private Storage Clouds

By Dick Weisinger

Amazon S3 and other public storage offerings have popularized the public storage cloud.  But companies are investigating cost savings that can be derived from their own private versions of cloud storage. Many storage vendors are offering private cloud storage.  The

Storage: Effective Management of Unstructured Data is Mission Critical

By Dick Weisinger

Yet another survey is released that again is showing data points that confirm the fact that many, if not most companies, are experiencing great pain in coming to grips with managing huge amounts of data.  These are the results of

Storage: Getting a Grip On Storage

By Dick Weisinger

On a survey of attendees of the UK Storage Expo ’09, 85 percent said that they would like their organization to get their data storage, information and content management and application out of silos and into an IT process that