Tag Archives: data growth
I dream of data reduction

I dream of data reduction

by Sunshine on March 29, 2010 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization

Data is growing at a dizzying rate. We need only look at our home computers to get a sense of how easy it is to fill our hard drives to overflowing with all manner of flotsam and jetsam. From family photos to LOLcats to videos of our kids, we’re finding it difficult if not impossible [...]

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Make the right call

Make the right call

by Sunshine on March 10, 2010 in Analyst, Ocarina, Storage, Storage optimization, Uncategorized, capacity optimization, green IT

Four out of five college students agree, this is not the way to deal with data growth. How about this instead?

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News from the Holodeck

News from the Holodeck

by Sunshine on February 16, 2010 in Uncategorized

As regular readers of this blog know, we’re obsessed with out there tech. Anything that smacks of Star Trekkian futurism gets our blood pumping. This week, Deep Storage’s Howard Marks reports on something we’ve been watching for some time: holographic storage. The news is sad. The company that was developing it, InPhase, is out of [...]

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Why Most Presentations are so Awful

by Sunshine on December 17, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage optimization

George Crump of Storage Switzerland has a post up today on Network Computing that really should be made required reading for every single mid-level executive in the storage industry and beyond. He offers the following simple, straightforward advice: “…every vendor’s opening slide should have three bullets: The exact problem the solve, why they are different, [...]

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Data Deluge – Are you Prepared?

Data Deluge – Are you Prepared?

by Sunshine on December 4, 2009 in Featured, Ocarina, Storage, Uncategorized, capacity optimization

Dell’s Inside Enterprise IT blog has identified “10 Trends to watch carefully.” The post is from the Gartner Data Center conference that wraps up today in Las Vegas. One of the biggest and most important trends? The coming “data deluge” that will pile onto company IT departments like a load of bricks. Over the next [...]

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The Petabyte Age Cometh

by Sunshine on July 13, 2009 in Storage

We’re not even the first storage blog to pick up on this–Storagezilla posted yesterday–but cloud provider Decho (formerly Mozy) has come up with a truly compelling graphic on the coming “Petabyte age” to invoke what the data growth we’re experiencing represents. Here are a few of its many eye-popping illustrative examples: Worldwide, data centers now [...]

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Storage Optimization – The Trend Picks Up

by Mike Davis on January 26, 2009 in Ocarina, Storage

Several news articles in the past week are responding to reports about the continued skyrocketing growth of unstructured data, and the technologies that are coming up to meet this new set of demands under today’s economic circumstances.  Here are a few of the articles that jumped out at us: Processor Storage Essentials – George Crump, [...]

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IBM Suddenly Notices “Mountainous Piles” of Data

IBM Suddenly Notices “Mountainous Piles” of Data

by Mike Davis on September 10, 2008 in Storage

Seems like it’s hitting everyone at once: there is a whole heck of a lot of data out there, and all of it must be stored. According to ZDNet’s recent coverage of IBM’s new storage strategy: “IBM estimates that the average individual’s ‘information footprint’ –the amount of data connected to a person–will grow to more than 16 [...]

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