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Storage: Vendor Revenues Up Despite Declining Prices as Capacity Shipped Explodes

By Dick Weisinger

Disk storage capable of holding up to 28 billion gigabytes or 28.3 exabytes were sold in the first quarter of 2015, according to a report by IDC.  That’s a 41 percent jump from sales in the same quarter in 2014.

Software Defined Storage: Cloud and Virtualization Spending Trump Big Data

By Formtek

Despite significant hype, very little funding is being set aside for Big Data, Object Storage and OpenStack by businesses, according to a recent survey by Datacore — 2015 The State of Software-Defined Storage.  Instead, businesses are funding initiatives like virtualization, private

Storage: Will Huge Data Volumes Ultimately Crush our Capacity for Data Storage?

By Dick Weisinger

In 2013 the world produced 3.5 zettabytes.  By 2020 that will increase to 44 zetabytes.  Are we in danger of not having enough storage capacity to hold all that data?  One storage industry veteran thinks so. When asked what the

Flash Storage: Shift to Solid State Shakes Up Storage industry

By Dick Weisinger

Technology on all fronts is changing rapidly, and storage is no exception.  2014 saw increasing innovation, but often coming more from startups and smaller storage companies than from the established names like EMC, NetApp and Juniper. Rob Commins, vice president

Storage: Enterprise Hard Disk Drives Lose Out to Consumer Ones

By Dick Weisinger

Think that all hard drives are just a commodity and brand doesn’t really matter?  Or that if you’re willing to spend more for quality that it’s better to buy ‘enterprise ready’ drives as opposed to ‘consumer’ ones? That may not