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Storage: What IT Professionals are Looking for in 2009

By Dick Weisinger

Hu Yoshida, CTO for Hitachi Data Systems, identified five areas that IT Professionals are looking for in storage systems.  With reduced budgets this year, technology choices are being made after considerable thought about how to maximize capital expenditure investments. The

Storage: More Bytes for Less Bucks

By Dick Weisinger

While the demand for storage capacity is sky-rocketing, storage units continually are becoming more sophisticated while costs continue to fall. A new standard for memory cards for digital cameras and mobile phones called SDXC is out now with a design

Storage: Storage Sales Buck the Bad Economy

By Dick Weisinger

While sales of anything are almost universally down, storage sales were up in 2008 and expected to continue to grow. Gartner reports that storage sales in 2008 grew from $16.2 billion to $18 billion, or about 11.3 percent. The top

Storage: SMEs Most Affected By Storage

By Dick Weisinger

You’d think that storage capacity problems are more serious at larger companies than small, but actually SMEs are now struggling the most. That’s the conclusion of a NetApp study of companies in India. The theory is that small and medium

Storage: Robust Data Growth But Limited Budgets

By Dick Weisinger

Storage requirements are growing fast, but budgets to address the management of that data are flat or declining.   A fourth quarter 2008 survey of 100 European IT managers found that 66 percent indicated their budgets are the same or will