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IN THE JUNE 2009 ISSUE OF STORAGENEWSLETTTER
Cover storY:
Bill
Evans, CEO of Arkeia Software:
" We are the first backup company
to deliver a virtual appliance."
* Three storage start-ups in stealth mode: Avere, EvoStor, and Actifio
* David Donatelli
can work for HP, but not in storage
* Emulex: "No to Broadcom"
* WD sold its Sarawak, Malaysia aluminum disk
media plant to Hitachi GST
* NovaStor has sold
its offsite backup service business to partner Data Storage Corporation
* In France, Storage Expo and Infosecurity 86'd
MARKET REPORTS
- LTO accounted for 77% of total tape
cartridges in 1Q09
- -21% from 4Q08 to 1Q09 for CD recordable media
- DVD recorders and media down 9% in 1Q09
- WW external controller-based disk storage
market declined 11% from 1Q08 to 1Q09
- WW disk storage systems revenues posted
year-to-year decrease of 18%
- First year-to-year decline in 21 consecutive
quarters for the WW storage software market
- 3,892,179,868,480,350,000,000 bits created
in 2008
- Digital content in an U.S. home could total 12TB by 2014
- 87% of UK companies expect storage growth
within the next 12 months
- Half of UK IT directors to switch from tapes
to online backup within the next three years
AND MORE
IN THE MAY 2009 ISSUE OF STORAGENEWSLETTTER
Cover storY:
What
does the future hold for Tandberg ?
Ultimately,
Oracle buys Sun
* Samsung, the last one in 2-disks 500GB 2.5-inch HDD
* With its 2TB HDD
Barracuda LP, Seagate can now compete with WD
* WD with "enterprise-class " 2TB SATA HDD, the RE4-GP, at only
5,400rpm
* Tandberg comeback in D2D2T
with DPS1000 VTL
* Donatelli from EMC
to HP? Not so fast...
* Highest French court annuls electronic text
* Hostile bid by Broadcom to acquire Emulex
* TDK buys Fujitsu interest in disk head joint
venture
* QLogic has acquired NetXen
for $21 million in cash
* Unify in definitive agreement to buy AXS-One for $8 million
* BakBone acquired certain assets of Asempra
for only $3 million AND completed the acquisition of ColdSpark
for $16 million* Ingram Micro acquired Value Added Distributors in New Zealand
* Seagate once again cutting staff
* SmApper teaming with Iron Mountain
* New financial fundings
for start-ups Storage Appliance, StoredIQ, Solera, VideoForever, Nirvanix, Symform
and BitArmor
MARKET REPORTS
- HDD shipments rose 7% in 2008 but will
plunge 11% in 2009
- 82% of home PC don't do regular backup
- Fundamental changes in 2009 impacting how
storage is acquired and utilized
- SSDs and digital video cameras to push the
flash market
- Shipments of DVD blank media in 2008 notched
up 5% year-to-year
- 75% of large enterprises plan to maintain or
increase data protection budgets in 2009
- Revenue for cloud storage to rise to $5.8
billion by 2013 from $487 million in 2008
- Storage practices are not in line with
storage policies
- Storage investments to increase 1% in 2009
- One third of questioned customers had lost a
USB key
- NetApp considered the market leader in FCoE
storage
- Sales of Blu-ray players in U.S. grew 72%
from 1Q08 to 1Q09
AND MORE
IN THE APRIL 2009 ISSUE OF STORAGENEWSLETTTER
Cover storY:
Hit
parade 2008: year marred by a poor fourth quarter
* Dell EqualLogic PS6000 with Samsung 50GB SSDs
* Super Talent 512GB
SSD at $2.9 per GB
* SSD controllers from start-up SandForce
* Seagate SV35.5 HDD
for video surveillance
* Hitachi GST with SAS HDDs at 147GB and 300GB rotating at 10,000rpm
* Bull and GlassHouse join forces in Europe
* Fusion-io closed
$47.5 million in funding
* LSI to purchase AMCC
3ware RAID business for $20 million in cash
* WD get SiliconSystems for $65 million to enter SSDs
* Persistent rumors of an acquisition of
Asempra
* Anobit, another start-up in flash
* Sepaton scores $15.5 million in funding
* Nimble Storage, new start-up in stealth mode
* Pliant Technology raised $15 million
* StoredIQ closed an
$8 million investment financing
* Solera Networks secured $7 million in a new
funding
* Axcient has
secured $6 million in series funding
* Nirvanix has raised an additional $5 million
in funding
* VideoForever has
raised $4.5 million in funding
* Rackable acquires SGI for only $25 million
* IceWEB completed
the sales of its Solutions Group subsidiary
* French optical disc duplicator QOL acquired Vogue Trading Video
* Philips transfers its optical test activity
to OM&T, a subsidiary of Moser Baer
MARKET REPORTS
- 70% of European data center's lost data was
not encrypted
- 59% of ex-employees steal confidential
company information
- Managers pressured do do
more with less
- WW disk storage systems spending down 6.7%
from 2008 to 2009
- 12 million Blu-ray players will ship this
year
AND MORE
IN THE MARCH 2009 ISSUE OF STORAGENEWSLETTTER
Cover storIES:
Interview with Philippe Spruch,
CEO of LaCie:" When we don't have S
for 'Stupid' or 'Seagate' in front of us, it's a very healthy business"
CeBIT's
crisis and crisis' CeBIT
* If IBM bought Sun, what would change in the
storage industry?
* HP EVA with LSI's virtualization, SSDs and
RAID-6
* 745 storage products from 93 companies
compatible with VMware
* 200GB and 400GB STEC's SSDs for Symmetrix
* Pillar Data adds Intel SSDs to its Axiom
storage subsystem
* 50GB SATA SSDs
added on the IBM System Storage EXP3000
* NEC Computers with new LTO-4 autoloader (1U,
9 cartridges)
* 1PB into Spectra
LogicÕs LTO library
* At CeBIT, Infortrend and ATTO introduced 8Gb FC RAIDs
* Jack Domme from
COO to CEO of HDS
* LaCie acquires Wuala, in TRUE cloud (and
grid) storage
* Exar will acquire Hifn
* Hitachi GST buys Fabrik
* Riverbed has completed the acquisition of Mazu
* Showa Denko and Hoya will not merge rigid
disk ops
* Start-up Ocarina got $30 million
* Storage Expo France: c'est
fini
MARKET REPORTS
- FC switches grew in 4Q08 but FC adapters
slowed down
- Negative growth for 4Q08 external disk
system market for the first time in more than 5 years
- WW external disk market grew 11% in 2008;
bad year for IBM; good one for Dell
- 66% of Europeans see their storage 2009
budgets as flat to declining
- WW storage software market grew only 3.6%
from 4Q07 o 4Q08, but 10.6% from 2007 to 2008
-U.S. Blu-ray player sales approach ten
millions
AND MORE
IN THE FEBRUARY 2009 ISSUE OF STORAGENEWSLETTTER
Cover storY:
Starts-up
in 2009: fewer financial rounds, for larger sums, compared to 2008
Editor's
note: "Walking on a cloud"
* WD Caviar Green: the first 2TB hard disk drive
* The Seagate Constellation is a 2.5-inch SAS
HDD at 7,200rpm and up to 500GB and the Constellation ES a 3.5-inch SAS HDD at 7,200rpm and up to 2TB
* F2 EcoFreen from
Samsung: a 3.5-inch HDD with 500GB per platter
rotating at 5,400rpm and up to 1.5TB
* Golden parachute: $5 million and more for
ejected Seagate CEO Watkins
* Milligan to guide Hitachi GST with Nakanishi
* Fujitsu gets Fujitsu's HDD business
* Barracuda Networks acquired Yosemite
* VShield Software
buys Trust Vault
* F5 Networks got the IP of defunct Attune
Systems
* Yet another acquisition for GlassHouse: CSSG
* Docdata media sold
its optical replication activity to Sound Performance Manufacturing
* Georgis replaced
as CEO of ProStor by HP veteran Harbist
* New round of financial funding for start-ups
humyo.com and StarWind Software
* AMCC cuts
workforce by 100 people
* Incentra under Chapter XI
* Hutchinson closed its suspension plant in
Sioux Falls, SD
* Another deficiency letter from Nasdaq for Overland
MARKET REPORTS
- Decline in WW HDD units in 2009 over 2008
being likely 7%
- Unprecedented 19% decline from 3Q08 to 4Q08
for WW HDD shipments
AND MORE
IN THE JANUARY 2009 ISSUE OF STORAGENEWSLETTTER
Cover storY:
M&As: 76 in 2008, versus 84 in 2007
Editor's
note: "I don't burn anymore, I flash"
* Samsung with a 3.5-inch 5,400rpm
HDD at 500GB per disk, up to 1.5TB
* Seagate shipping 500GB-per-platter
7,200rpm HDD with up to two platters
* Seagate 3.5-inch Cheetah 15K7: 15,000rpm, up to 6OOGB, 6Gb SAS or 4Gb FC
* Seagate 3.5-inch NS.2:
10,000rpm, up to 6OOGB, 6Gb SAS or 4Gb FC
* All HDD manufacturers offer external units
* Pioneer kills LaserDisc
* Parts of Plasmon acquired by Alliance and
Kodak
* New Israeli start-up Ctera
in "cloud-attached storage" grouping small NAS in single appliance
* From Cloud Engines, a small device that
connects external HDDs directly to Internet
* Watkins out, Luczo back as CEO of Seagate
* Toshiba's turn at talks to buy Fujitsu's HDD
ops
* Seagate to cut WW headcount by 2,950 people
* Start-ups to follow: KerStor
and Storspeed
MARKET REPORTS
- WW HDD year-over-year shipments growth rate
declined for the third straight year
- HH LTO drives
out-shipping FH units
- Flat sales for DVD recordable technology
- CD recordable technology revenue decreasing
- WW USB flash drive shipments increased 9%
from 2Q08 to 3Q08
- WW disk storage for digital media market
valued at $24 billion in 2007 and to double by 2014
- U.S. online adults own an average of 1,800
files
- Green storage just beginning in SMBs
- Importance of email archiving goes behind
compliance
- SMB data
protection practices not on pace with data growth
AND MORE
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