October 29, 2009 3:27 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
software as a service,
Storage Software as a ServiceTwo startups are taking a software-as-a-service (SaaS) approach to reporting on storage assets.
Storage Fusion Ltd, a UK company spun off by a private investment firm last year, claims to be reporting on storage environments of up to 60 PB, and signed...
October 29, 2008 12:26 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
NAS,
software as a service,
Storage managed service providers,
Storage market research reports,
storage technology researchAccording to a new IDC Enterprise Disk Storage Consumption Model report released this week, transaction-intensive applications are giving way as the main segment of enterprise data to an expanded range of apps as well as a tendency to create more copies of data and records for business analytics...
July 28, 2008 1:35 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
data backup,
small business storage,
software as a serviceLast week, we saw a good bit of rain falling on cloud storage's parade. First there was another Amazon outage. Then it came to light that a cloud storage site called
June 23, 2008 3:48 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Around the water cooler,
software as a serviceI've watched the story unfold about Microsoft and Yahoo, but from a removed perspective because it has little to do with the storage industry and when it comes to most things Web-based and search or email related, I'm a Google user. Still, it's been a good story to sit back with some popcorn and...
June 23, 2008 10:36 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
software as a service,
Storage backup,
Storage managed service providers,
Storage Software as a Service,
Strategic storage vendorsI wasn't convinced at first when an alert blog reader flagged an error in my previous posts about Symantec and SwapDrive: a comment from "kataar" pointed out that yearly, SwapDrive actually charges $500 (five hundred) for 2 GB, not $50 (fifty).
That couldn't possibly be right, I thought. I...
May 5, 2008 10:51 AM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
software as a serviceSo I come back from a day off and what do I find? IBM and Google, Sun and...
April 29, 2008 3:07 PM
Posted by: Dave Raffo
software as a serviceHardly a day goes by without a new storage service rolling out. On Monday, it was IBM's turn to launch two storage services as part of its portfolio of services for midsized customers - organizations with 100 to 400 employees and a handful of Windows servers.
The interesting thing about IBM's...
April 14, 2008 2:20 PM
Posted by: Beth Pariseau
data backup,
software as a service,
Storage backupI was very happy to see one of my regular blog-stops, Anil Gupta's Network Storage, pick up on a recent post I wrote--the one about HP's new online storage services.
In his response...
