A look at the offerings and strategy of Infinidat - an exciting new storage systems vendor Read more »
Infinidat strengthens its modern enterprise storage system solutions
IBM Storage introduces the Flash System 5045
IBM announced last updated its FS5000 series storage systems in February 2021, having launched them the year before. This week it announced the FS5045, which replaces the FS5035. Like the FS5035, the new product includes Data reduction (compression and deduplication), Scale-out clustering, IBM HyperSwap high-availability and Encryption To differentiate it […] Read more »
Storage systems – sales steady, but uncoupled from raw storage growth
A look at the size, growth and major suppliers of storage systems in 2022. Read more »
Storage systems 2021 – stable spending in a sea of change
The worldwide storage systems hardware market grew by just 2% in 2021 to reach $34.8 billion, which proved yet again that the success of these products has become increasingly unconnected with that of raw storage, which grew by 19% growth in the year. My Figure above shows total spending by […] Read more »
Raw storage in 2021 reaches 3.6ZB capacity, $182B spending, 1B shipments
A look at the raw storage market for HDD, NAND and DRAM in 2021 Read more »
Storage systems hardware and software, raw storage trends and market shares
My latest shares, trends and analysis of the global storage market Read more »
IBM storage – data resiliency, pay-as-you-go and mainframe hardware in its Q3 2021 announcement
My look at IBM Storage announcements on July 20th 2021 Read more »
IBM Storage launches the FlashSystem 5015, 5035 and 5200
A look at IBM's introduction of the FS5015, FS5035 and FS5200 storage arrays Read more »
IBM Storage – advanced support container-based applications in its Q4 2020 announcements
A look at IBM Software announcements on October 27th 2020 Read more »
IBM radically simplifies its storage offerings in Q1 2020
ITCandor's assessment of IBM storage announcement on Feb 12th 2020 Read more »
IBM’s Q4 2019 announcements – storage for the AI and container workloads you want to run
Following closely on the heels of the DS8900 launch last month, IBM announced some major storage products (both hardware and software) today at the TechU conference in Prague. My analysis here is based not only on briefing material from Eric Herzog and his team, but also from my visit to […] Read more »
IBM expands the Storwize 5000 family and multicloud storage attachments – April 2019
Analysis of IBM storage division announcements on April 2nd 2019 Read more »
Storage sales $199b in 2018 – exponential capacity growth, increasing software control
A look at the balance between raw and system storage markets Read more »
IBM Q1 2019 storage announcements – security and AI for hybrid multi-cloud customers
A look at the implications of IBM Storage division's Q1 2019 announcements Read more »
IBM Storage October 2018 – Gen3 V7000, Spectrum Discover launched
A review of IBM Storage division's Q3 2018 announcements Read more »
IBM announces the FlashSystem 9100 – so much more than NVMe
A look at IBM's NVMe-based flash controller and systems Read more »
Data management challenges in a regulated, hybrid, multi-cloud world
The challenges of data management in 2018 Read more »
8. Storage commoditisation puts more suppliers out of business
My eighth 2018 prediction is about how the rapid exponential growth in raw storage capacities is making a nonsense of most storage system supplier strategies. Read more »
Violin Memory privatised – the all-flash disruptor disrupted
Some thoughts about the change in company status for Violin Memory. Read more »
HPE adds flash and analytics through acquiring Nimble storage
Some thoughts on another acquisition. Read more »