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Brocade
Acquires Storage Services Company
SAN JOSE, Calif - March 4, 2008
Brocade today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to
acquire Strategic Business Systems.
Founded in 2000, and
headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, SBS provides data center-focused
professional services.
“The data center is evolving at
unprecedented rates and customers are asking us to provide more services that
solve real-world business challenges. SBS’s team of skilled professionals
and comprehensive portfolio of service methodologies will enable us to offer an
expanded line of services that address the challenges of our customers...”
said Michael Klayko, Brocade CEO.
...Brocade profile,
Storage Services,
storage acquisitions
Solid Data Expands SSD Services
SANTA CLARA, CA- -
January 29, 2008) - Solid Data Systems, Inc. today announced the
expansion of its professional services organization.
This group
helps users optimize the use of SSDs
in high transaction rate applications and is aligned by vertical industry
expertise. Solid Data's services program offers free initial phone
consultation, on-site architectural assessment and evaluation, and technical and
cost analysis on proposed SSD-based architectural solutions.
"In
the past SSDs were often used as quick fixes, only replacing key hot files,"
said Mark Hayashida, CTO of Solid Data Systems. "The mission of Solid Data
Professional Services is to introduce architectures specifically designed around
solid state disk storage. These architectures bring more than performance to
high transaction rate environments. Once the limitation of mechanical disk
drives is removed, the resulting systems are simpler, use much less power, and
reduce the number of servers required. In addition, peak transaction capacity is
dramatically increased, virtually eliminating server crashes due to overload. In
properly architected systems the savings more than compensate for the additional
cost of the SSD..."
...Solid Data Systems
profile
Editor's comments:- this is a welcome move because as
new vendors enter the enterprise SSD market - there will be many examples of
the technology being mis-sold for applications which get no real benefit because
the SSDs have been deployed incorrectly. That's like hitching a
Porsche to plow
your field. It may have the horsepower - but it's not going to go any faster
than the John Deere... There's no
substitute for expertise when deploying this technology.
IDC Says Enterprises Slower to Adopt Online
Backup Services
FRAMINGHAM, Mass
- January 7, 2008 - IDC estimates revenue for the online backup
services market will reach $715 million by 2011, representing a 33.3% compound
annual growth between 2006 and 2011.
IDC anticipates that more than 50% of spending in this market will be
in North America in earlier years, with other regions gaining share through
2011. Adoption by consumers and small businesses will dominate the market for
several years, with slower adoption by medium-sized businesses and enterprises.
"Consumers and small businesses especially are interested in
alternative methods of protecting their data, as
traditional backup
methods fall short regarding efficiency, reliability, and ease-of-use,"
said Doug Chandler, research director for Storage Services at IDC. "Online backup has become
an attractive approach for many customers, with the advent of cheaper broadband
access, users' greater comfort level with Web-based services, and the growing
business need for a 2nd site for remote data protection purposes."
...IDC profile,
Market research
NetApp Acquires Onaro
Sunnyvale, Calif -
January 3, 2008 -NetApp today announced a definitive merger agreement
to acquire Onaro.
"80% of all IT operational issues
such as application outages, performance problems, and downtime result from
unwitting change" said Tom Georgens, executive VP at NetApp. "Customers
tell us they are being asked to commit to almost impossible levels of service to
avoid these problems, which drain precious resources... With the addition of
Onaro, our ability to provide the underlying modular storage architecture as
well as policy-based storage management software will help enterprises commit to
escalating service levels..." ...Onaro profile,
...Network Appliance
profile
Seagate Acquires Another E-Discovery Toolkit
SCOTTS
VALLEY, Calif - December 6, 2007 - Today, Seagate Technology
announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire MetaLINCS.
Founded in 2003, MetaLINCS is a privately held company with more
than 50 employees. MetaLINCS's enterprise-class E-Discovery software
automatically analyzes emails, documents and associated metadata, and presents
visual analysis of people, conversations, concepts and communication patterns.
Leveraging this product with E-Discovery technology acquired from
EVault earlier this year
- Seagate says it will be able to offer corporations, law firms, and
litigation service partners one stop sourcing for tools and services related
to archive analysis, recovery and review.
MetaLINCS,
...Seagate profile,
Acquired storage companies
SiteShelter Backs Up Web Sites
Memphis, Tenn. - October 22, 2007 -
Remote Backup Systems Inc. today introduced SiteShelter - an
automated utility that backs up, mirrors, monitors, and even repairs web and
FTP sites.
SiteShelter can back up web sites and FTP sites hosted on Windows,
Unix and Linux servers, as well as most other popular operating systems. The
software can back up an unlimited number of web sites or FTP sites
concurrently. To preserve bandwidth during peak hours, SiteShelter can be
programmed to launch automatically during low-traffic times. SiteShelter is
currently available and costs $199.
...Remote
Backup Systems profile | |
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Quorum - High
Availability and Workload
Management appliance from
Themis Computer
Manage upto
50 servers in real-time, any application,
any server with 1 simple
interface. | |
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Nibble:-
How Big is the Storage Services Market?
With more than a $24
billion market in 2005 and more than 1,000 storage services providers vying for
storage services revenue worldwide,
Gartner (in 2006)
predicted the storage services market will surpass $30 billion by 2009.
Reality
check:- In 2002 Gartner predicted that this market would be worth around $45
billion in 2005. Their predictions are sometimes way too optimistic. | |
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Squeak! -
Animal Brands and Metaphors in the Storage Market
Animal
marketing metaphors are popular in service industries, but you'd be surprised
how many companies have used animals in their marketing of data storage
products and services.
The storage market was worth over $150 billion
in 2005, and as it gets bigger - more companies will turn to animal brands to
help differentiate their otherwise bland products and lend them artificial
(or deserving) characters and virtues.
The idea behind this type of
marketing is to suggest positive connotations so it's unlikely that anyone will
choose to associate their products with gremlins. But you may be surprised by
the population of the storage ark.
This reference articles lists all
known companies who have furry marketing brands, and also includes some which
are slimy, scaly and scary too. ...read the article,
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