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IN THE JUNE
2008 ISSUE OF STORAGENEWSLETTTER
Cover storY:
HPC: a new storage paradigm
A
visit to the world's 32nd largest HPC: France's CEA Tera-10
Technology
feature:
What's the difficulty in putting 7,200rpm and 15,000rpm drives in the same
chassis? It's the heads, not the spin speeds
*
1.8-inch 5,400rpm HDD from Toshiba et 160GB
*
WD finally has notebook HDD at 7,200rpm and a 3.5-inch 1TB device with only
three platters
*
Seagate the first with SFF drive at 300GB
*
Dell storage revenue down sequentially 3% though EqualLogic acquisition
*
Finisar spun-off its SAN monitoring and testing business
*
ProStor pushed its RDX 2.5-inch cartridge from 300GB to 500GB
*
After being successful with Seagate, Convolve filed a suit against Dell, WD and
HGST for motion control technology associated with vibration of HDD actuator
arms
*
For $123 million, Symantec completed the acquisition of online backup provider
SwapDrive
*
GlassHouse Technologies purchased UK IT consulting firm TPP Group
*
SanDisk acquired MusicGremlin
*
Arrow Elecronics completed the acquisition for European VAD LOGIX
MARKET
REPORTS:
-
Eight percent growth in the WW disk storage systems in 1Q08
-
WW external controller-based disk storage market grew 6.6% in 2007 and 10.2% in
1Q08
-
WW disk storage system capacity shipments continue to double very two years
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All HDD makers are expanding production capacity in 2008
-
FC storage networking and Ethernet switches sales declined during 1Q08 from
4Q07
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Lenovo has the largest sale volume in Chinese mobile hard disk market in 1Q08
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Troubling signs for NAND flash slowdown in 2008
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WW storage management software revenue increased 12% in 2007
-
Many U.S. consumers fail to protect their priceless information
-
Storage virtualization market set to more than double in the next two years
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Large organizations experiencing explosive growth in log data collection
-
Capacity and utilization planning, the most important challenge for the year
-
Replication software market shifting with higher growth expected from
host-based and network appliance-based replication
-
C-level executives prioritizing business continuity protection
AND
MORE
Cover storY:
2007
HIT PARADE: AND THE GROWTH GOES ON...
Revenue
: 1/ EMC, 2/ Seagate, 3/ Hitachi GST
Net
income : 1/ EMC, 2/ Seagate, 3/ WD
Net
loss : 1/ LSI, 2/ Hitachi GST, 3/ Rackable
Revenue
growth : 1/ Data Domain, 2/ Riverbed, 3/ Compellent
Revenue
decline : 1/ Innovex, 2/ Infodisc, 3/ Ciprico
*
VelociRaptor from WD, one of the fastest desktop SATA HDD with a 2.5-inch
mechanism at 10,000rpm and a capacity of 300GB
*
ExcelStor launches 3.5-inch ATA or SATA drives with one 160GB or 250GB platter
only
*
Ultrastar 15K450 from Hitachi GST, an enterprise 3.5-inch HDD rotating at
15,000rpm for a 450GB capacity
*
New Fujitsu and Hitachi GST notebook HDD up to 320GB at 7,200rpm
*
Fujitsu 2.5-inch units built for 24-hour operation
*
Comeback for Finis Conner, not in storage
*
IBM definitively gets Diligent and FilesX
*
EMC finally acquires Iomega for $213 million
*
Iron Mountain purchased DocuVault
*
Cisco has completed the acquisition of Nuova for a price up to $678 million
*
Vault USA acquired MoreStor Vault
*
Novell completed the acquisition of PlateSpin
*
Avnet plans to acquire Horizon Technology for $156 million in cash
*
Phoenix Technologies has completed the acquisition of BeInSync
*
PHNS has acquired AmeriVault now operating with Network Technology Group
*
HP plans to buy Tower Software
*
$30 million investment received by Datacore
*
New financial funding for start-ups Storewiz, Fusio-io, Mimosa, Molecular
Imprints, Gear6, Unitrends, Solera and Nirvanix
*
IPO for ONStor and Nexsan
*
50%/50% joint venture between EMC and Digital China
CORPORATE
SPOTLIGHT
-
Mtron knows how to control flash disks effectively
-
CMS Peripherals distributes flash keys to enterprise SAN/NAS
MARKET
REPORT
-
Green data centers are far from a reality for both European and U.S. companies
alike
AND
MORE
IN THE APRIL
2008 ISSUE OF STORAGENEWSLETTTER
Cover storIES:
Vern LoForti, president and CEO of Overland:
"We have our own data de-dup in
development."
More than 1,000 online backup providers in the
world
-
The list of 1,395 online backup providers in the world
-
Worldwide online backup services market to reach $715 million by 2011
-
Corporate email hosting is poised for explosive growth
*
SAP founder and chairman invests in SmApper
MARKET
REPORTS
-
HDD units increased 15% to 502 million units in 2007, with revenue at $33 billion
-
Employee habits increase potential litigation exposure
-
Data loss prevention emerges as a critical component to organizations
AND MORE
IN THE MARCH
2008 ISSUE OF STORAGENEWSLETTTER
Cover storY:
CeBIT
2008 Special Report:
*
Storage giants absent, small fish breathe easier
* RAID on
CMC, Daxon, Lead Data and ProMedia by German police
* Following EMC, Sun to
enter enterprise flash SSD
* Allstar team heading new SSD
start-up Pliant Technology
* 80 million CD-Rs and
DVD-Rs seized in Asia since December 2007
* The first 1.8-inch HDD at 5,400rpm,
from Toshiba
* Fujitsu, the third manufacturer to
enter 500GB notebook drives after Hitachi GST and Samsung
* Hitachi GST follows the competition
with a 2.5-inch HDD with 160GB per disk, up to 320GB
* WD shipping desktop HDDs
at 640GB on two platters
* Iomega's REV from 70GB to 120GB
* A tape library with SAS interface,
by PivotStor
* Sun continues to invest in tape:
the T9840D at 75GB and a new SL3000 library (56/3,000)
* EMC insistent on Iomega
acquisition
* Arrow to purchase European VAD
LOGIX for Euro 120 million
* Smart Modular Technologies
completes the acquisition of Adtron for $35 million
* LSI definitively acquired the HDD
semiconductor business of Infineon
* Broadcom has got its
hands on Sunext Design for $48 million
* Brocade signed a definitive
agreement to get Strategic Business System
* TeraCloud acquires and becomes
Estorian
* Silicon Mountain Holdings acquired
IP of an unidentified storage software developer
* Phoenix-like, Raidtec
rises from its ashes as Arystor
* $2.4 billion for Dell storage
during last fiscal year
* HP registered $977 million revenue
in storage for 1Q08
* New CEOs at Iron Mountain,
Diskeeper and Active Circle
* New financial funds raised by
start-ups agami, NextIO, Incipient, Layered Technologies and Drop.io
MARKET REPORTS
- 281 exabytes for the digital
universe in 2007, 60% CAGR
- The best place for EMC and NetApp
in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for mid-range storage enterprise in 2H07
- Strong growth for the worldwide
disk storage market, but HP lags
- Green data centers are far from a
reality for both European and U.S. companies alike
- Worldwide storage software market
growing continuously since 17 quarters
- Worldwide removable HDD market will
increase at a 65% CAGR rate
- Which niche storage technology
vendors are causing a shift in provider landscape?
AND MORE
IN THE
FEBRUARY 2008 ISSUE OF STORAGENEWSLETTTER
Cover storIES:
From 2006 to 2007, fewer mergers and acquisitions,
and at lower prices
Storage blogs, rather a bore
* NetApp prepares for the
succession of the old guard
*
WD at 320GB on one 3.5-inch disk platter
*
Third generation of Iomega REVs to come
*
Imation Odissey becoming a removable-removable drive
* Brocade DCX: Rolls Royce of
switches
*
Flash drive now for desktop PCs also
* Riverbed countersues Quantum on
de-dup patent
*
U.S. Patent Office in favor of Convolve against Seagate
* Out of stealth mode, Atrato gets
$18 million
*
TeraCloud bought Asterion
*
Another Dell storage acquisition: The Networked Storage Company in UK
*
WiebeTech purchased by CDU-DataPort
*
Rocket Software acquires assets of Arkivio
*
Atempo picks up Lighthouse Global Technogies
*
The ICT Group has got its hands on other French company DataBase-Bank
* Start-up Fabrik has acquired G-Technology
*
Double-Take Software acquired TimeSpring for $8.3 million
*
Managed Data Holdings has acquired Data393
*
Hitachi GST finally becoming profitable
*
Plasmon to raise 10 million sterling pounds
*
New funding for start-ups Pivot3, Nanochip, Box.net, and Caringo
MARKET
REPORTS
- No glowing future for recordable media, save blue ray discs and memory cards
-
65% of midsize European enterprises are not properly prepared for data loss
AND
MORE
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