Marty Foltyn

Amid tentative signs that the economy is trying to emerge from its worst downturn in more than 50 years, data storage industry analysts, vendors and financiers gathered last week at the BD Event in Boston to offer their thoughts on where the storage and IT industries are headed in the year ahead. IT sales growth […]

A year ago, a Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) survey revealeduser frustration with storage management, including high costs, poor management tools, growing storage needs and increasing complexity. To find out more about the reason for end users’ frustration and to see if any progress has been made, SNIA’s End User Council (EUC) developed a new […]

This week’s announcement that the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) is reviewing the proposed Extensible Access Method (XAM) storage interface standard has implications for storage managers as well as the hardware and software vendors that provide products to them. XAM is a joint storage industry proposal to establish standard interfaces to coordinate information metadata between […]

The overall future for digital data storage remains excellent. The disk industry has reached a significant milestone, and new kinds of disks are driving an explosion of consumer and industrial applications. One of the most innovative “feeders” to the growth of storage is consumer applications. Enterprise storage users that create content for applications, like those […]

A year ago, Laurence Whittaker of Hudson’s Bay Company sat in the audience at an End User Town Hall Meeting at Storage Networking World. Users voiced their concerns and frustrations over implementing storage technologies in their organizations. The technologies themselves were not the main concern; rather, users sought help with issues such as communicating needs […]

An Interview with Tom Coughlin of the Storage Visions Conference We surround ourselves with data that we need to store. Think of your “To File” manila folder or the sea of papers you navigate to get to your desk every day. But also think of the vast amount of digital data you need to keep […]