{"id":177,"date":"2007-01-12T11:10:29","date_gmt":"2007-01-12T19:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2007-01-12T11:10:29","modified_gmt":"2007-01-12T19:10:29","slug":"storage-continues-to-make-a-splash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/storage-continues-to-make-a-splash\/","title":{"rendered":"Storage Continues to make a Splash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I\u00a0<a title=\"Information Overload technologies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=168\" target=\"_blank\">discussed<\/a> how the Burton group sees a shift away from emphasis on technologies like Capture and Storage within ECM\u00a0towards technologies that alleviate &#8216;Information Overload&#8217;.\u00a0 But these &#8216;first wave&#8217; technologies are not standing still.\u00a0 Expect big changes in the area of storage.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Arun Taneja\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tanejagroup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Arun Taneja<\/a> has an <a title=\"Arun Taneja on Storage predictions for 2007\" href=\"http:\/\/www.computerweekly.com\/Articles\/Article.aspx?liArticleID=221152&#038;PrinterFriendly=true\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> where he discusses some of the activity that has been brewing in the area of storage and makes some predictions about what might happen in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Taneja notes that many many storage startups began in 2000 and 2001.\u00a0\u00a0 Much of the new technologies that these companies worked on are now beginning to make an impact on the marketplace.\u00a0 In a market where IPOs have become rare, 2006 saw four IPOs within the Storage space.\u00a0\u00a0It hasn&#8217;t been since <a title=\"Xyratex\" href=\"http:\/\/www.xyratex.com\/index.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Xyratex<\/a> in 2004\u00a0made an <a title=\"Xyratex IPO\" href=\"http:\/\/searchstorage.techtarget.com\/newsItem\/0,289139,sid5_gci990390,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">IPO<\/a> as a storage company.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Riverbed\" href=\"http:\/\/riverbed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Riverbed<\/a> (September 2006) &#8212; Manages &#8216;wide area data&#8217; between remote offices<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Commvault\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commvault.com\/news_story.asp?id=286\" target=\"_blank\">Commvault<\/a> (September 2006) &#8212; Unified Enterprise Backup and Recovery<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Isilon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.isilon.com\/news\/?sub=press&#038;page=press&#038;release=108\" target=\"_blank\">Isilon<\/a> (December 2006) &#8212; Clustered Storage Solutions<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"DoubleTake IPO\" href=\"http:\/\/www.doubletake.com\/_docs\/pr\/PressRelease-DBTKPricesIPO-Dec152006.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">DoubleTake<\/a> (December 2006) &#8212; Disaster Recovery, High Availablity and Backup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Categories of some of the other new storage players include<\/p>\n<p><strong>Storage Virtualization<br \/>\n<\/strong>Storage Virtualization allows you to\u00a0aggregate multiple network storage devices and make them appear to function as a single storage device that can be centrally managed.\u00a0\u00a0The technology allows\u00a0backup, archiving and recovery\u00a0to be handled much more easily.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Information Classification and Management (ICM) devices<br \/>\n<\/strong>ICM devices have some built-in knowledge about the unstructured data that they store.\u00a0 These devices allow certain kinds of data to be identified and allow rules to be defined for how data should be managed\u00a0 This promotes the capability of policy and rules-based actions and is very useful for addressing\u00a0compliance and records management requirements.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ICM devices may also directly full-text index the data stored on the device and to be able to automatically classify data and derive metadata.Some up-and-coming companies in the ICM Storage space include <a title=\"Kazeon\" href=\"http:\/\/kazeon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kazeon<\/a>, <a title=\"Index Engines\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexengines.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Index Engines<\/a>, and <a title=\"Abrevity\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abrevity.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Abrevity<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Storage in 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taneja is predicting as many as eight to ten Storage-related IPOs in 2007 might happen, but also notes that there will be many more storage startups that haven&#8217;t yet gained traction after five to six years of development that will be sold off for their assets.<\/p>\n<div class=\"lightsocial_container\"><div class=\"lightsocial_element\"><a class=\"lightsocial_a\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fformtek.com%2Fblog%2Fstorage-continues-to-make-a-splash%2F&amp;title=\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lightsocial_img\" src=\"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/light-social\/digg.png\" alt=\"Digg This\" title=\"Digg This\" \/><\/a><\/div><div 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