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 »

IBM’s new FlashSystems – better speeds, feeds, integration and cyber protection

IBM today launches a number of market-leading hardware products based on its new, third generation, FlashCore Module. Not content just to keep technically ahead of its competitors, it continues to work hard to integrate these offerings into its wider approach to hybrid multi-cloud computing, its cyber resiliency services and new […] 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 extends its deep storage capabilities to Microsoft Azure users

IBM’s storage group’s strategy seeks to support customers in their use of multiple data centers, whether on premises or in public clouds – and whether using IBM products or others. It wants to make it easier and more efficient for them; but to do so it has mastered a number […] Read more »

IBM to split – spinning off its managed service business

Some ideas - with market data and forecasts - on IBM's intention to split itself into 2 companies 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 »

Storage systems – calm in a stormy storage sea

Some stats and thoughts about the storage systems market in the first half of 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 »

Storage in Q2 2018 – ‘system’ stagnant, ‘raw’ booms with 2 Zetabytes shipped

A look at the on-going development of the storage market in Q2 2018 Read more »