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 »

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 2017 – growth at last!

A complete review of the storage systems, disc, NAND and DRAM markets. Read more »

Storage systems down 2.5% in Q1 2016 – long term decline causes widespread consolidation

Storage systems markets continue to wane Read more »

2016 prediction 6 – Raw storage and services drive Big Data growth

For an update to this data please click here. Over the last few years there’s been shift in spending away from storage arrays and towards raw storage. I expect this to continue in 2016. In total the market will grow by 2% to $115B, with the strongest growth in raw […] Read more »