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IN THE AUGUST 2008 ISSUE OF STORAGENEWSLETTTER
Cover story:
Plasmon soon relegated to storage industry achives?
An
interview with CEO Steve Murphy
* The first 2.5-inch
HDD at 10,000rpm, the WD VelociRaptor
(at 300GB)
* Hitachi GST demonstrated 610Gb per square inch
magnetic recording on disks
* Hitachi GST HDDs
for video recorder applications
* Apparently Fujitsu, Hitachi GST, Hoya and Showa Denko looking
deeply at patterned media
* Adaptec taps start-up Aristos Logic for $41 million
* Brocade gets Foundry
Networks for $3 billion
* WD now back in disk controllers
* In South Africa, Vodacom purchases 51% of StorTech
* Double-Take bought emBoot
* Imation to close Camarillo, CA
plant
* Rackable to divest its RapidScale storage business
* DataPlay acquires DaTARIUS and resume operations
* Thales UK made a
cash offer for the capital of nCipher
* Dot Hill to acquire RAIDCore and NAS IP of Ciprico, under Chapter XI
* The R&D facility of Seagate in Milpitas,
CA is up for sale
* Bernard Gilbert disappeared as CEO of Ibrix
* New financial funding for storage start-ups Kickfire, Data Robotics and Expand Networks
MARKET REPORTS
- 17% yearly growth for the WW external disk storage systems
in 2Q08
- Storage software market
records $3 billion in 2Q08
- Secondary disk storage surpasses tape and optical as arriving
destination of choice
- EMEA HDD growth
at 19% in 2Q08 from 2Q07
- Americans are
not properly backing up their data
- Insatiable demand
carries HDDs through recession
- 51% of consumers
said 1TB HDD would be useful to them
- Average value
of stored data has reached
$1,660 per person
AND
MORE
IN THE JULY 2008 ISSUE OF STORAGENEWSLETTTER
Cover storIES:
Tape revival? If so, for how long?
New announcements from IBM, Sun and HP/Sony
- From Sun, WW tape
capacity for a day (1000/120)
- IBM TS1130 (1000/160) is the
first GMR tape drive
- HP and Sony working on next
generation DAT320 drives (160/12)
Dell and EMC bear each other (up):
with two
different strategies
And an interview from Traveen Asthana, director of Dell
Storage:" We continue to target
acquisitions, on the software side."
* Eric Kelly, the guy behind
Overland's acquisition of Adaptec's Snap
* Seagate deeply restructures
(disk and media) component manufacturing
* Bull and Fujitsu Siemens in
talks
* Does anybody still do
holography? 23 companies filing patents recently
* Seagate Momentus
notebook HDDs at 500GB, 5,400 or 7,200rpm
* Toshiba 2.5-inch unit at
400GB
* WW record capacity of an HDD:
1.5TB (on 4 platters), by Seagate on 7200.11 desktop model
* Hitachi GST with 1TB HDDs on
3 disks
MARKET REPORTS
- Data protection, recovery and
replication driving storage software market
- 50% of storage production
environments at F1000 targeted to be virtualized by 2009
- 18% CAGR through 2012 for
external HDD market overview
- Disk-based data protection
and disaster recovery projects to drive storage spending in Europe
- Organizations at risk from
unsecured USB flash drives
- Europe behind U.S. in
virtualization adoption
- U.S. medium businesses to invest
$7.8 billion in storage and security this year
- Businesses feel the
'crunch" as backups get out of control
- SSDs not a factor today, but
may replace tens of millions of HDDs in th
future
- Active archiving to become
more integral to information management initiatives
- Video surveillance market
poised for $46 billion of explosive growth
- Video surveillance storage
market to exceed 3.3EB by 2012
- Network storage to be fastest
growing home networking category
AND
MORE
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 and 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
-
All HDD makers are expanding production capacity in 2008
-
FC storage networking and Ethernet switches sales declined during 1Q08 from
4Q07
-
Lenovo has the largest sale volume in Chinese mobile
hard disk market in 1Q08
-
Troubling signs for NAND flash slowdown in 2008
-
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
-
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
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