IDC predicts that Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar will be at the forefront of further
disk storage market growth, due to the boom in business tourism and upcoming international events.
The open networked
disk storage market, which includes Open SANs, iSCSI SANs and NAS systems, grew 8.5% year over year in the first quarter with $5.1 billion in revenues, according to IDC.
Fujitsu is addressing exactly the problem of managing enterprise storage data growth with its latest generation of ETERNUS DX Enterprise
Disk Storage System, introducing a modular architecture that can be flexibly expanded to meet ever-changing business needs.
The total amount of capacity delivered also continued to rise, with total
disk storage systems shipped in the quarter representing 5,353 petabytes of capacity, up 46.7 percent from a year earlier.
With 80 percent share, it is noteworthy to observe that even though block-access ECB
disk storage grew 14.9 percent over 2009 in 2010, this large segment grew only 3.4 percent over 2008.
EMC expands #1 position in external
disk storage systems, analyst firm reports
Disk storage systems typically account for the largest share of storage hardware sales in the APEJ region.
was the top provider of external
disk storage systems for the ninth consecutive year in 2006, according to the March publication of IDC's Worldwide Quarterly
Disk Storage Systems Tracker.
Idealstor's FrankeNAS is an all-in-one
disk storage and back up appliance that uses Raid5 redundancy and ejectable disk technology to provide a disk-to-disk storage solution.
Storage management for
disk storage was popularized by IBM's HSM functionality beginning in 1976 and was soon followed by DSM/OS, an HSM product from Sterling Software that quickly gained appeal for its performance, ease-of-use and policy-based capabilities.
And the makers of
disk storage devices are responding by offering a myriad of new products that can store everything from digital video of the latest family reunion to years of accounting and payroll records.
The NSC55 easily surpasses the limitations of current midrange "
disk storage only" products as well as functionally-limited switch or appliance-based "virtualization-only" offerings, by offering customers the best of both worlds with the industry's leading rich, high-end storage functionality--and enterprise-proven virtualization software--all united in a powerful, rackmounted, modular form factor at a midrange price.
