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New Storage Blog for
Readers in Italy
Editor:-
April 23, 2008 - Storage & Backup is a new (to me) online
publication which covers the storage market in Italian.
Storage Markets Says Goodbye
Editor:- November 12, 2007 - Storage
Markets today concluded its experiment of predicting trends and
transitions in the storage industry.
First launched in October
2006, the
publication /
market research site
says that over 560 storage industry professionals and end users participated
with insights and opinions. Here at the mouse site - we have our own way of
predicting things - based on analyzing the storage search behaviour of over 1
million readers and feeding that into
ScryWare. ...gone away storage
companies
New Storage Thinking Tank
Editor:- February 22, 2007 - a new (to me)
storage publication is Wikibon.
It's tagline is "The Storage Thinking Tank". It includes
articles, opinions and comments about a range of storage issues. It also has a
bee in its logo and so I've added it to my article:-
Animal Brands
and Metaphors in the Storage Market. ...Wikibon
STORAGEsearch.com Publisher is 15
Editor:- October 2, 2006
- this month is the 15th anniversary of founding ACSL - publisher of
STORAGEsearch.com
The storage market, which will generate over
$160 billion revenue in 2006, is the most important segment in the computer
industry and this is an exciting time to be covering storage as fundamental
changes are taking place in the way that enterprises architect their IT
infrastructure.
Gone are the days when the processor or the operating
system were the primary factors which dictated how everything fitted together.
In the future - the levers and gateposts which enable or inhibit fast
corporate change will be dictated by how well the storage systems support the
data needs of the enterprise.
Just as the internet gave rise to new
types of companies which didn't exist before, the new age of content will
generate huge markets where the success or failure of the enterprise will be
determined by the strength or weakness of its underlying storage systems.
Looking
back at the start of my publishing career:- one of the frustrations of
publishing a computer market directory in the early 1990s was the fact that new
editions were obsolete on the day they were printed. My data collection
methodology was to research and update data every day. Soon after it became
acceptable to make money on the web - we made plans to switch to a web format -
which we did in 1996. Although much has changed on the web in the past decade -
one factor has remained unchanged:- people migrate quickly to the sources which
give them the best information. Content providers (like us) and content finders
(like Google) need each other (even though
we compete in the same advertising market) and although search algorithms have
improved, I think human editors can still do a better job of collecting
together lists of all the important companies in a vertical market.
STORAGEsearch.com has been leading the
way to the new storage frontier for 8 years, and before that our
SPARC Product Directory
helped to shape and inform the needs of the people building the dotcom market.
It's been great fun working on these in the past 15 years - and I look forward
to reporting on the exciting developments still to come. ...ACSL profile
SNIA Europe Launches Storage Networking
Times
Editor:-
June 27, 2006 - a new article called "The Business Case for IP Storage"
was published today - written by Aad Dekkers, IPSI Chair, SNIA
Europe.
It appears in a new quarterly publication called
Storage
Networking Times launched today by SNIA Europe.
See
also:- Storage Industry Trade
Associations, iSCSI
StorageNewsletter Acquires Mass Storage
News
Paris, France,
and Erie, PA - April 20, 2006 - Privately-held Micro-Journal, the French
publisher of StorageNewsletter, has definitively acquired Mass
Storage News, published by RMG Enterprises in Erie, PA.
Both
publications are dedicated to reporting on the worldwide professional storage
community. From now on, as a result of this acquisition, Mass Storage News will
be merged into StorageNewsletter. The financial terms of the transaction were
not disclosed.
"The storage industry is in a period of heated consolidation
and this is also the case for storage publications. By acquiring Mass Storage
News and merging it into StorageNewsletter, we will increase our audience and
will by far lead the market of newsletters targeting storage professionals.",
said Jean-Jacques Maleval, Editor of StorageNewsletter.
"We are very happy to see Mass Storage News join a publication of
the caliber of StorageNewsletter, from which our readers can now benefit,"
commented Larry Roberts, CEO of RMG Enterprises and publisher of Mass Storage
News.
...StorageNewsletter
profile, Mass Storage News
Editor's
note:- Lat year (March
18, 2005) Mass Storage News announced it had completed the acquisition of
Jobstor.com. I've said
before that I think the market doesn't need so many
online storage publications.
A smaller number of better quality publications works better for readers. | | |
| STORAGEsearch - (this site)
Enterprise storage focused web directory since 1998 - published by
ACSL |
DataStoreX - storage portal started 2000 |
| speicherguide.de - German
Storage-Portal, started January 2003. |
Techworld - UK focused IT and
storage portal started May 2003. |
| EnterpriseStorageForum.com. -
portal from internet.com was originally called NetworkStorageForum.com |
Byte and Switch - portal launched June
2001 by Light Reading |
| SNIA - Storage Industry Networking Association |
ITtoolbox Storage - portal from
Information Technology Toolbox, Inc. |
| ISIT.com is a FREE library designed
to help buyers of information technology (IT) products. The library answers
hardware, software, and application questions about various technologies,
including: Storage. |
UK Information
Storage Organisations - a directory compiled by Mackintosh Consultants |
| Storage Pipeline - originally published
by CMP. Started June 2003. Has been
acquired by Byte and
Switch |
searchStorage.com since 2000 -
storage portal from techtarget.com. A
confusingly similar name to ours. But no mice. |
| Storage Markets - publication
focused on market prediction - launched 2006. |
InfoStore - since 2004 - English
language online version of Asian based magazine of the same name. |
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| CompactFlash Association - The CFA is a
non-profit, mutual-benefit corporation that maintains and promotes the
CompactFlash™ and CF+™ specification as a worldwide, small form
factor, removable card standard. |
SCSI Trade Association - Trade association
focused on SCSI. |
| DVD news and resources on dvdfile.com |
DVD Forum
- Trade association focused on DVD |
| Storage Review - Benchmarks, reviews
and news about the disk drive market. |
DataStorageHub - aims to be the knowledge
exchange and communication platform for the global data storage community. |
| usByte.com - started in 1999. Mostly PC
related storage. |
RAID Advisory Board - Trade
association focused on RAID. |
| Opportunities &
Trends in Data Storage & Retrieval -
Mass Storage News |
InfoStor - website from the print magazine
of the same name. |
| Fibre Channel Industry Association |
Storage magazine - online
site supporting TechTarget's print magazine of the same name - launched March
2002 |
| STORAGE - started in 2001 - UK
print magazine. |
Blocks and Files - online storage news -
started February 2008. |
| Wikibon - storage community site |
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Serial
Attached SCSI - is it worth the wait? - article republished from InfoStore
magazine
Here at
STORAGEsearch.com we've had a
magazine page dedicated to
SAS since 2001.
SAS products have been shipping to users since 2005 - but the
market has been stuck in a prolonged "innovator" phase. As the SAS
market is poised to advance to the "early adopter"
phase - I thought it would be good to have an article (which is less technical
than those we've previously published) to introduce the benefits of this
technology to more readers.
This article is republished here with
the kind permission of InfoStore -
Asia's leading storage magazine. ...read the article | |
| Storage Products Guide -
started in 2005 - by Silicon Valley Communications |
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Nibble:-
Re Consolidation in the Storage Publication and ORGs Market?
Editor:-
November 10, 2004 - During the difficult time in the IT market (2001 to 2003) it
seemed that every IT publisher spawned "Storage Portals " and related
online publications.
I stopped counting them when I realised that the
likely number was heading into 3 digits. In most cases these shallow titles were
little more than a single homepage with the word "Storage" on it, a
few news headlines and a back end which was the same old PC publication,
Business Wire newsfeed, or in some cases, nothing behind it at all.
This
caused tremendous confusion to marketers in vendor companies, who with the
business recovery in the storage market have experimented with many of these
new sites and been disappointed with the results - because most of them didn't
have many readers. New storage dot-ORGs sprang up too - to standardise
differences in technology which were too small for most oems and users to care
about.
I'm pleased to say we're seeing now some consolidation in the
number of storage publications and storage dot-ORGs. Six of them, which we
previously listed have disappeared in the last month or so. Their websites have
been acquired by vendors or their domains are up for sale.
Although
the storage market is now a
$70 billion / year
market - my belief is that the contraction in the number of storage portals will
continue and, as a publisher we look forward to it dropping back down to maybe 3
or 4 titles - each with their unique flavor and special intellectual property,
insights and interests.
If
Google, Yahoo
and MSN can navigate users through billions
of general web pages than you don't need more than a handful of focused portals
to provide content within the storage space. | | |
