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The most common type of "storage software"
is that which does backup or replication. But the reason this list below is
nearly twice as big as our backup
software directory is because there are a lot more different types of
storage software than that.
Drivers for making the hardware work with
the OS are a good example. But since they nearly always come from the same
IHV - there's no point
in listing such products here.
Software for
analyzing storage can
range from simple storage bus analyzers which help developers debug driver code,
and freeware which looks at bottlenecks in your database upto SAN wide
heavyweight packages which help you understand and manage an enterprise storage
network. And while on the subject of SANS - a few brave companies like
Nimbus,
Open-E and
Wasabi have developed
what are in effect NAS
operating systems.
As WAN storage networks have become more common the
concept of accelerating or deduping the communications payload has also received
a lot of developer attention. A leading pioneer in the IP acceleration software
market is NetEx, whereas
the list of storage
deduplication
ISVs mentioned on these pages already runs into double digits.
Security is a big subject
- which has had its own pages for many years. And the
Disk Sanitizer
market which started out as a software solutions market has expanded into
hardware - because it takes too long to erase hundreds or thousands of
discarded hard drives (or tapes) using software on a single PC.
Many
Data Recovery
companies offer software downloads to help you with simper recovery tasks. But
when your hard drives have been charred to smoky plastic or immersed in the
sludge waters of a flood - a UPS or Fedex upload is a more realistic solution.
If
all of that sounds too complicated then there are plenty of independent
Storage Training
companies to help you do it yourself or (if you've got enough money)
Storage Services
companies who will take the problem of managing it all off your hands.
ISVs
like to talk about "lifecycles" - because it makes it sound like
they've actually thought about what will happen to their teenage hacker
developed code, or your data, for more than 5 minutes.
Virtualization
is another word which has been fashionable in recent years. Although every piece
of software that's not part of a hardware driver or OS kernel already includes
many levels of assumed virtualization.
One part of the lifecycle
which ISVs don't talk about so much - is that part when they are no longer in
business having gone bust
or been acquired. But despite the fact that the list of gone away ISVs is
already much bigger than the live list below - it doesn't stop new startup ISVs
going to the local storage
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New Integrity Tool for Old
Tape Archives
Editor:- January 18, 2010 - Crossroads Systems
today announced
details of ArchiveVerify - a new monitoring option for its
ReadVerify Appliance
that safeguards the future readability of data
backed up on
tape.
"In our experience, the Achilles' heel of a data recovery
strategy is often the uncertainty of the data's readability, and this single
point of failure can render then entire restore process useless," adds
Bernd Krieger, Managing Director, at Crossroads Europe.
Editor's comments:- Crossroads was originally a specialist in
the SAN router business.
In recent years it has done a lot of work in the area of
storage reliability.
I've read lots of their whitepapers which describe their research and products
addressing data integrity.
Although there has been a historic trend
for users to migrate
away from tape to disk backup - many super users of huge
tape libraries (with the
biggest archives) will be the last to migrate away - due to logistics and cost.
It's those kind of users who can benefit most from automated tools or services
which increase the data integrity they achieve and cut down media waste and
unrecoverable events.
Symantec Adds SSDs to Storage Migration Classes
Editor:-
December 7, 2009 - Symantec
announced an upgrade to its Storage Foundation management software which
enables it to
automatically
discover SSDs from leading vendors and optimize data placement on SSD
devices transparently.
Editor's comments:- this is a tool within the context of a
complex and expensive
data
migration service - rather than an auto-tuning SSD acceleration tool.
You'll still need the SSD Hot Spot Engineer to tell you where to migrate those
files to. As we head into 2010 - Year of the SSD Market Bubble - you're going
to see the word "SSD"
appearing in a lot of press releases from
software vendors as a
way of making their products sound sexier.
40 Years of Data Archiving
Editor:- October 13, 2009
- KOM Networks
today celebrated
40
years of secure archiving.
"We may not be a household name"
said Kamel Shaath, CTO of KOM Networks "but our customers are, and they
rely on us to protect, preserve, secure, store and retrieve their most critical
data."
KOM Networks is credited for the creation of the first software to
manage optical disks in 1983, the first optical storage management software for
Windows NT in 1995, and the first virtual file system with electronic file
lifecycle management in 2001.
storage
history
OEMs Qualifying Virtual RAID Adapter Software
Editor:-
September 15, 2009 -
Dot Hill today
announced
that several tier #1 OEMs are evaluating its virtual RAID adapter
software.
VRA-based
solutions enable server OEMs to offer built-in, high-end
RAID functionality in
multi-core Intel compatible servers without the expense of a dedicated
RAID-on-chip acceleration device.
In September 2008, Dot Hill acquired
certain assets from Ciprico
which included exclusive rights to license
RAIDCore
technology from Broadcom.
The acquisition was part of a strategic initiative to offer software-only
products for the enterprise server data protection market as complementary
offering to its existing external hardware RAID array business.
RAIDCore
VRA technology enables RAID to be offered in volume, entry-level servers where
hardware-accelerated RAID has traditionally been too expensive.
EMC Acquires Kazeon
Editor:- September 1, 2009 -
EMC today
announced it has
signed a definitive agreement to
acquire privately-held
Kazeon Systems.
Core to Kazeon's
eDiscovery
attractiveness is its ability to handle data that resides anywhere in the
enterprise environment - including content on laptops, desktops, content
management repositories, email archives and file shares.
New Disk Backup Article
Editor:- July 14, 2009 - a
new article is published today on StorageSearch.com
called -
"Aspects of
Disk Backup".
Written by Andrew Brewerton -
Technical Director (Europe) - BakBone Software - the
new article comprehensively reviews the why? how? and where?
of today's modern enterprise disk backup techniques.
StorageSearch.com has had a decade
long affinity with enterprise
disk backup - tracking changes in the market since the concept 1st began.
This overview article brings that coverage right up to date - from the
perspective of a leading company in the
backup software market.
...read the
article
Caringo Offers Free 4TB Cloud Storage Evaluation
Editor:-
June 23, 2009 - Caringo
today
announced
it's offering a free way to evaluate the benefits of its cloud storage -
with the release of a Windows compatible CloudFolder linked to 4TB storage.
The
company says users can drag and drop individual files or whole directories to
CloudFolder for remote storage and can also make it a shared folder. Retrieving
files is as easy as double clicking on a file or folder.
Mark Goros,
CEO at Caringo says "We believe CloudFolder will inspire users to test and
deploy private cloud storage within an organization or throughout a network of
managed service customers."
Vembu Aims at US Online Backup Market
Editor:- May
28, 2009 - Vembu
Technologies today announced the appointment of Randy J. Whitehead
as VP of Strategic Business Development.
Reporting to Vembu's
President,
Lakshmanan Narayan, Randy will
primarily be responsible for growing Vembu's business in the US and Canada,
with a focus on channel partnerships.
"Our StoreGrid software
solution powers the
online backup services
business of more than 1,250 service providers worldwide, and more than 850 of
these service providers are based in North America," said Sekar Vembu, CEO
of Vembu Technologies. "Randy's deep experience in operations and sales,
coupled with his years of experience in the online backup market, will help to
further catalyze our rapid growth in the service provider market."
Prior to Vembu, Randy was co-founder and COO of
Arsenal Digital Solutions.
Randy has more than 20 years experience in outsourcing solutions and operations,
system integration and business development. He was also at
StorageTek, where he
was responsible for the industry's first implementation of a storage utility
solution and the structuring of large outsourcing/utility deals, as well as the
operation and delivery of managed storage services. He has also held senior
positions with IBM, BT, Data General and AT&T. Storage People
BakBone Acquires Effective Assets of Asempra
Editor:-
May 4, 2009 - BakBone
Software has
acquired
certain assets from Asempra
Technologies.
Under the terms of the agreement, BakBone has
agreed to issue 3,846,154 common shares and to pay cash consideration of
approximately $350,000, plus accrued royalties.
Editor's comments:- an article in
TheRegister
speculates that Asempr's VCs
(having already invested $29 million) pulled the plug on the cash draining
Asempra. This brings the gone-away
storage companies list to 491.
Streaming Surveillance Camera Storage
Editor:-
April 27, 2009 - SoleraTec
has incorporated support for the
Real Time Streaming
Protocol that allows for the direct video feed capture of IP-based video
surveillance cameras in version 5.2 of its
digital surveillance manager
software (SVM).
SoleraTec says its software is unique in its
ability to provide a file-based search and retrieval interface that enables the
user to actually play video surveillance files without first needing to retrieve
original hi-res assets from storage.
When its SVM ingests files, it
automatically creates low-resolution proxy files for fast search and view. Once
a desired video asset has been selected, clipped, and marked for export, the
new, user-configurable "extended export" functionality enables the
user to export needed data in a variety of ways, such as FTP, email, and local
file systems. Pricing for Phoenix 5.2 starts at $996.
CommVault's CEO "Unhappy" with 19% Year over Year
Revenue Growth
Oceanport,
N.J. - February 4, 2009 - CommVault today announced $60.1 million
revenue for the 3rd quarter ended December 31, 2008 - effectively 19%
year on year revenue growth.
But this was also a decrease of 5% over the prior
quarter.
"We achieved 19% year over year growth in total revenues"
said CommVault's chairman, president and CEO N. Robert Hammer. "This is
not a growth rate we were happy with especially since our underlying business
and pipeline growth is strong. The major issue that negatively impacted our
reported results was big deal slippage. The outlook for our business continues
to be good and we are really excited about the announced introduction of Simpana
8. Specifically, on
January
26, 2009, we announced the launch of our next generation software release,
the CommVault Simpana 8 software suite - which will enable our customers to
reduce costs and improve operating efficiencies. We believe it will enable us to
further strengthen our position in the data and information management market to
sustain our track record of innovation and double digit growth." ...CommVault profile
Editor's
comments:- when I compiled the list of the
Fastest Growing Storage
Companies in 2007-2008 - 34% was the minimum entry requirement and
there were several companies in the 200-300% region.
With the
effects of the recession you may doubt if any company this year will reach
those dizzy heights. You would be wrong. I'll be running more stories about
those in upcoming articles and news bulletins. From them we can learn a lot
about what the storage market will look like in the future.
Storage Software Market Maintains Growth - says IDC
Editor:- December 8, 2008 - IDC
has published 2 reports recently about the Storage Market in Q308.
According
to IDC the worldwide storage
software market grew 11.6% year-over-year with revenues of $3.1
billion.
And IDC says the worldwide external disk storage systems
market grew 8.8% year-over-year reaching $4.9 billion.
"Numerous
IDC surveys of IT users suggest that storage is one of a few hardware categories
where buyers are reluctant to cut spending independent of the economic situation"
said Natalya Yezhkova, at IDC. "At the same time, current market conditions
and tightening budgets are leading to longer purchasing cycles for storage
systems and to the adoption of technologies designed to optimize storage
utilization and/or reduce total cost of ownership." ...IDC profile,
market research
Is Deduplication of Data safe? - and More Deduplication FAQs
Editor:- September 22,
2008 - StorageSearch.com has published a new article - on the subject
of - "Data Deduplication."
Its author Philip Turner,
UK Regional Director at Data
Domain described his article as the "Ultimate Deduplication FAQs".
But it's more than mere FAQs - as the paper combines multiple mini essays on
this subject in an easy to read guide. ...read the article
O&O Improves Defrag Control Granularity
Berlin, Germany -
September 15, 2008 - O&O Software GmbH says Version 11 of its
Defrag Professional and Server Edition is now available.
For the
first time ever, O&O Defrag 11 lets you defragment individual files and
folders as well as partitions and entire hard disks by simply right-clicking.
The new File Status View is based on the already familiar Block View, which has
itself been improved and extended in the new version. The File Status View
displays the most heavily fragmented files as well as their number and level of
fragmentation.
...O&O profile |
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Software Market Heads Towards $12 billion Annual Revenue |
FRAMINGHAM, Mass
- September 8, 2008 - According to IDC - the worldwide storage software
market experienced its 19th consecutive quarter of year-over-year growth in the
second quarter of 2008 with revenues of $3.1 billion, a 14% increase
over the same quarter one year ago.
This was the first time that
the worldwide storage software market surpassed $3 billion in revenues in a
single quarter.
"The overall storage software market grew at a faster rate in
the second quarter than in the usually slow first quarter of the year. The
year-over-year growth for 2Q08 was 14.2% compared to 9.4% for 1Q08. Most of the
top vendors experienced accelerated growth in the second quarter, which helps to
explain the strong Q2 results," said Michael Margossian, research analyst,
Storage Software at IDC. "The smaller vendors also had a strong quarter,
but had less impact on the overall market than the top vendors." "
EMC led the overall market with 24.2% revenue share. Symantec took the 2nd
position with 19.1% revenue share, while IBM finished in the 3rd position with
13.3% revenue share. NetApp finished in the 4th position with 7.8% revenue share
while HP and CA rounded out the top 5 in a statistical tie with 4.8% and 4.4%
revenue share, respectively.
...IDC profile,
Storage Software ISVs,
market research
Surveillance Video Gets New Archiving Software
Escondido, CA -
August 27, 2008 - SoleraTec LLC today announced Phoenix Surveillance
Video Management.
Phoenix SVM reduces the costs associated with
long-term surveillance video data. It automatically moves surveillance video
from primary storage in DVRs and NVRs to archive storage while preserving
watermarks, time codes, analytic information, and other surveillance
system-provided metadata. Archived video data is continually monitored and is
automatically migrated to media that provides the most cost-effective storage
that meets the data's storage longevity and access-performance requirements.
...SoleraTec profile
Building Solaris / Linux Servers in Hours not Days
Cork Ireland - July 24, 2008 - Tapasol Ltd
is looking for resellers / integrators / partners for its new bare metal server
restore technology.
Tapasol supports the Solaris OS (on both SPARC &
X86/64 architectures) and Redhat Enterprise Linux . Tapasol say that their
technology reduces installation time by upto 85% and this can be done
from a single piece of media or from another server, without needing skilled
engineers. For more info contact Managing Director,
Dan Hayes (dan.hayes@tapasol.com)
...Tapasol profile,
SPARC VARs,
SPARC Product Directory
C2C Survey Looks at Mailbox Management Headaches
SPRINGFIELD, MASS. - July 1,
2008 - C2C today released the results of a 3rd party survey including
IT and non-IT personnel from organizations of all sizes, showing a majority of
corporate email users are responsible for managing their own mailboxes,
resulting in significant loss of productivity.
Almost 1/3 of
respondents have mailbox capacity limits set at less than 100 megabytes - very
low considering email attachments can be several megabytes each.
- 65% of survey respondents contend with mailbox quotas, and are
forced to self-manage their email to stay operational.
- 66% take their own measures to save email messages in order to
ensure they aren't lost, with a majority storing email outside their company
email system, in some cases even in personal/home email accounts.
- 67% need to search for an email that is more than 3 months old at
least once a month, with 28% spending time searching about once a week or even
daily.
"eDiscovery is becoming much more important in the context
of civil litigation," said Dave Hunt, CEO at C2C, "and companies that
fail to produce emails in a timely manner risk paying millions of dollars in
fines, not to mention loss of reputation and possibly revenue. " ...C2C profile,
Storage Software,
market research
Editor's
comments:- I'm sure you can think of your own examples of when email
marketing quotas get in the way of doing business. Here's an example from home.
My wife is a marketing guru who trains and coaches marketers in many of the
world's best known companies. One of the intermediaries she works with has a
very small mailbox quota - about the size of a single powerpoint presentation.
So when she sends them details of a new training program she has to phone them
first to make sure they delete their entire inbox - and if that isn't awkward
enough she often has to compress or split up the files too.
Parascale Secures $11 million in Funding
CUPERTINO, Calif - June 23,
2008 - Parascale today announced it has closed a $11.4 million Series
A financing round led by venture capital firms Charles River Ventures and Menlo
Ventures.
Parascale has developed solutions designed to support
content-intensive applications, including video-on-demand, digital document
archiving, scientific data analysis, video surveillance and medical image remote
diagnosis among others. ...Parascale profile,
Storage VCs
New Version of Casper Hard Disk Backup
Indianapolis, IN -
June 10, 2008 - Future Systems Solutions, Inc. announces a new version
of its hard disk backup utility for Windows.
Casper 5.0
(download price $49.95) enables the creation of a complete and
immediately-bootable PC backup for use when disaster strikes. Among other new
features it eliminates severe performance degradation commonly arising from
aggressive filtering techniques in leading antivirus and antispyware products.
...Future Systems
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