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Storage Software ISVs

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 VC in the wall machines to request funding.

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Storage Software news
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

Storage 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 profile
Storage Software Companies - A to K
2netFX

Accellion

Acronis

Alacritus Software

APTARE

Archivas

ArcSoft

ArdisTech

Argentum

Arkeia

Arkivio

Asigra

Atempo

Attune Systems

Availl

Avaki

Avamar Technologies

AXS-One

BakBone Software

Beatty & Company Computing

Beehive Software

Beta Systems Software

BHA

Binary Research International

Blancco

Blue Nomad

BMC Software

Bocada

Breakthrough Systems

BridgeHead Software

BusTrace Technologies

C2C Systems

CA

CaminoSoft

Caringo

CEI

Celona Technologies

Cofio Software

Columbia Data Products

CommVaultSystems

CreekPath Systems

Cucku

CYA Technologies

Cyber-Ark Software

Datacatch

DataCenter Technologies

DataChorus

DataCore Software

Datalight

DataMills

DataMirror

Datman

Dekart

Diligent Technologies

Diskeeper

Double-Take Software

ECI

EDUCOM

emBoot

EVault

everStor

Evertrust

Evgeny Software

Extreme Protocol Solutions

e-zdata.net

FalconStor Software

FarStone Technology

FileFlow

FilesX

FileTek

Front Porch Digital

Future Systems Solutions

GEAR Software

GetData

Gresham Computing

Guidance Software

HCL Technologies

hyperI/O

IBM Tivoli Software

Incipient

InMage

Intelligraphics

Intellisync

InterSAN

InterVideo

Invio Software

ITS Systems

KOM Networks

K-PAR Archiving Software

Lakeview Technology

LeftHand Networks

Legato Systems

LI Utilities

LiveVault

Lockstep Systems

Logic Arena

Lok Technology

Lortu Software

Storage Software Companies L to Z
Macrovision

Marathon Technologies

MediaRECOVER

Mendocino Software

Microlite

Microsoft

Mimosa Systems

MonoSphere

Moonwalk

Mountain View Data

NetMass

Network Disk

NewTech Infosystems

Njini

Northern

NovaStor

Novell

Novosoft

NSI Software

NuView

Onaro

O&O Software

Open-E

Opsware

Optima Technology

Orion Consulting

OrionSoftLab

Otium Software

OuterBay

Outer Technologies

Parascale

Pegasus Disk Technologies

Peer Software

Pointsec

PolyServe

Portlock Software

Precise Software Solutions

Prickly Spine Software

Princeton Softech

Professional Help Computer Svces

Progress Software

Quest Software

Rakersoft

Raxco Software

Remote Backup Systems

Reliaty

Research Triangle Software

Rice Electronics

Rocket Software

Sanbolic

SaveAs

Scentric

Seanodes

SENCOR

Senforce Technologies

Servergraph

SevenMountains Software

SGL

Softek

Software Architects

Software Pursuits

Solix Technologies

Solution-Soft

StarForce Technologies

StarWind Software

St. Bernard Software

SteelEye

Storability

Storactive

StorageApps

StoreAge

StoredIQ

Storix Software

String Bean Software

Symantec

Syncsort

Tapasol

Tarmin Technologies

Tavata Software

Tabernus

Tek-Tools

TeraCloud

Tiger Technology

TimeSpring

TOLIS

Topio

Tugboat Enterprises

UltraBac Software

Uniblue Systems

UniTrends Software

U.S. Design

Vembu Technologies

Vicom Systems

VIEO

Vision Solutions

VisionWorks Solutions

VOB Computersysteme

Vyant Technologies

Wasabi Systems

XOsoft

Xythos Software

Yosemite Technologies

Zmanda
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