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 »
Peer Software GFS – software for handling exponential storage growth
An introduction to Peer Software's GFS 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 »
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 radically simplifies its storage offerings in Q1 2020
ITCandor's assessment of IBM storage announcement on Feb 12th 2020 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 »
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 »
Aparavi addresses the growth of unstructured data and data protection regulations
A quick look at Aparavi - a supplier of software for data retention and archiving. Read more »
Data management challenges in a regulated, hybrid, multi-cloud world
The challenges of data management in 2018 Read more »
Storage – the raw v system dichotomy
Some 2017 sizing, shares and forecast from ITCandor's storage research 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 »
Micron SolidScale – now that’s what I call Big Data!
Micron steps out as a storage systems supplier with the first ever boxed NVMeoF solution Read more »
IBM adds new all-flash hardware to its evolving software defined storage strategy
A look at IBM's storage strategy and August product announcements Read more »
WD buys SanDisk – can you have your cake and eat it?
Storage supplier consolidation thoughts Read more »
Storage systems down 2.5% in Q1 2016 – long term decline causes widespread consolidation
Storage systems markets continue to wane Read more »
Storage systems down 5% in 2015
Some market stats on the storage systems and component markets Read more »