Big Blue is announcing more then 30 new or upgraded products or services that are the result of a $2 billion investment. A CNET article by Reuters, . Published on September 7, 2008 9:45 PM PDT.

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I have believed for sometime now that storage market will stay healthy for the foreseeable future no matter what happens to the broader economy in general and IT in particular in the short term. IBM has recognized the bullish future in storage market and is pitching new solutions focusing on virtualization, deduplication and solid state drives. Cool, isn’t it! I thought so, all these are amazing technologies designed to cut storage cost, and energy footprint of the data centers. The article also talks about EMC coming up with wholesome solutions, covering hardware, software and services around it. I think NetApp is also eyeing the same market, with increasing focus on virtualization and services offering to the enterprise client. This market is getting interesting by the day, and I think the pie is big enough for many players to survive, will see! As a storage experts, anything positive on this industry is really good news for us!

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Big Blue is announcing more then 30 new or upgraded products or services that are the result of a $2 billion investment. A CNET article by Reuters, . Published on September 7, 2008 9:45 PM PDT.

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I have believed for sometime now that storage market will stay healthy for the foreseeable future no matter what happens to the broader economy in general and IT in particular in the short term. IBM has recognized the bullish future in storage market and is pitching new solutions focusing on virtualization, deduplication and solid state drives. Cool, isn’t it! I thought so, all these are amazing technologies designed to cut storage cost, and energy footprint of the data centers. The article also talks about EMC coming up with wholesome solutions, covering hardware, software and services around it. I think NetApp is also eyeing the same market, with increasing focus on virtualization and services offering to the enterprise client. This market is getting interesting by the day, and I think the pie is big enough for many players to survive, will see! As a storage experts, anything positive on this industry is really good news for us!

I have been hearing a lot of chatter on Microsoft SharePoint lately. Seems like it is experiencing good adaptation rates by the enterprise customer. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is meant to help customers with Collaboration,Portals, Enterprise Search, Enterprise Content Management, Business Process and Forms and Business Intelligence. I looked at this product from two angle- first how we can use SharePoint and increase productivity within our company and second how can we dig deeper in the product APIs and build interfaces around it so that we can have our own custom application around it. As I write this, the research within our company at API level is still ongoing and I am sure we can find some value addition in this market and hopefully participate in this movement!
Microsoft does have a competitor in this market and that is none other than the Big blue IBM. It is called Lotus Quickr,and according to this article, IBM thinks (obviously) they have a better offering. Lets wait and watch, for now I am betting on Microsoft!

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I have been hearing a lot of chatter on Microsoft SharePoint lately. Seems like it is experiencing good adaptation rates by the enterprise customer. Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 is meant to help customers with Collaboration,Portals, Enterprise Search, Enterprise Content Management, Business Process and Forms and Business Intelligence. I looked at this product from two angle- first how we can use SharePoint and increase productivity within our company and second how can we dig deeper in the product APIs and build interfaces around it so that we can have our own custom application around it. As I write this, the research within our company at API level is still ongoing and I am sure we can find some value addition in this market and hopefully participate in this movement!
Microsoft does have a competitor in this market and that is none other than the Big blue IBM. It is called Lotus Quickr,and according to this article, IBM thinks (obviously) they have a better offering. Lets wait and watch, for now I am betting on Microsoft!

I came across this interesting article from IBM. In a world where computerization is invading every aspect of life, the exponential growth of data is but a natural outcome. This data has to be managed effectively otherwise it can turn toxic and kill the efficiency of the organization. According to the article “As companies, government departments and other organisations accumulate information at an accelerating rate, they face growing costs and inefficiencies that threaten their ability to function. The answer lies not just in new ways of applying IT technology and services, but also in changes in individual and organisational behaviour”.
I tend to agree with what the article has to stay in terms of data growth and the implied toxicity of unmanaged growth, but the solution offered seemed targeted towards their own products( doesn’t surprise me though..). Managing data growth could be a good market for storage solution providers and has room for many players beyond IBM. In fact our company also has expertise in this space and I look forward to helping our clients deal with this problem.

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I came across this interesting article from IBM. In a world where computerization is invading every aspect of life, the exponential growth of data is but a natural outcome. This data has to be managed effectively otherwise it can turn toxic and kill the efficiency of the organization. According to the article “As companies, government departments and other organisations accumulate information at an accelerating rate, they face growing costs and inefficiencies that threaten their ability to function. The answer lies not just in new ways of applying IT technology and services, but also in changes in individual and organisational behaviour”.
I tend to agree with what the article has to stay in terms of data growth and the implied toxicity of unmanaged growth, but the solution offered seemed targeted towards their own products( doesn’t surprise me though..). Managing data growth could be a good market for storage solution providers and has room for many players beyond IBM. In fact our company also has expertise in this space and I look forward to helping our clients deal with this problem.

I came across this article from NetApp on thin provisioning and found it very interesting. Growth in storage is a fact of life and the businesses today have to just learn to deal with them. Thin provisioning promises to increase capacity utilization and bring down the Total Cost of Ownership. NetApp has this great concept of FlexVol as part of ONTAP 7G which lets you allocate storage as you need it, a JIT (Just In Time) implementation for the storage world. The FlexVol virtualizes the underlying physical storage helping the administrator add capacities on demand.
If thin provisioning is so cool, is the NetApp the only vendor? Hardly. IBM has a similar product called SAN Volume Controller. Hitachi Data Systems has the TagmaStore product, EMC has Invista virtualization platform. This is a nice article documenting the birth of Invista and the challenges EMC faced with it.

>I came across this article from NetApp on thin provisioning and found it very interesting. Growth in storage is a fact of life and the businesses today have to just learn to deal with them. Thin provisioning promises to increase capacity utilization and bring down the Total Cost of Ownership. NetApp has this great concept of FlexVol as part of ONTAP 7G which lets you allocate storage as you need it, a JIT (Just In Time) implementation for the storage world. The FlexVol virtualizes the underlying physical storage helping the administrator add capacities on demand.
If thin provisioning is so cool, is the NetApp the only vendor? Hardly. IBM has a similar product called SAN Volume Controller. Hitachi Data Systems has the TagmaStore product, EMC has Invista virtualization platform. This is a nice article documenting the birth of Invista and the challenges EMC faced with it.