More U.K. companies storing data in the U.S
Many don’t realize that online back-up companies’ services can be utilized from other countries, and that doing so may save time and money. There are several key reasons for this trend: 1) Data center density laws in the U.K., which are not in place in the U.S., allow data centers in the U.S. to provide [...]
Iron Mountain’s online backup services are up for sale – who’s looking to buy?
Information management company, Iron Mountain, is reevaluating its digital business services by eliminating digital archiving, online backup and recovery solutions. The billion-dollar company’s strategic plan is to ‘enhance stockholder value’ by only remaining in the market where they have a leadership position to increase ROIC for stockholders. Reasons for shedding themselves of their online backup [...]
Building an IT Brand
Branding is a hot topic – from personal branding (what you relay about yourself through your actions and communications), to branding a company or product (through marketing, public relations, and other avenues). Whether for a person, company, or product, branding is necessary to distinguish from the competition and stand out in the market. And that [...]
Electronic data laws create a need for online backup
Online backup companies are seeing storage growth trends not only because of the exponential increase in electronic data, but also because of electronic data laws. White label online backup companies provide an easy way for businesses to comply with the federal regulations of keeping data available, easily accessible, transparent and auditable. Here’s a super-brief history [...]
Disk Storage Capacity Shipped Reaches 5,127 Petabytes, Growing 55.7% Year Over Year
We’re in the storage disk market, let’s be clear. On a daily basis we’re hooking up new clusters, managing disk failures, and handling terabytes of bandwidth. One thing we’ve noticed in 2010 was the double digit growth, and it looks as though IDC has their ear to the ground as well. International Data Corporation reports [...]
Worldwide IT Spending Outperformed Expectations in 2010, Reaching $1.5 Trillion
Depending on which magazine or website you read, the economy is either still in the tank or on its way to even more pain; but let’s see the truth for what it is in the IT industry, which is we’re officially back to business, building products, moving scale, and capturing demand for expansion of the [...]
167 Million HDDs for 88 Exabytes Shipped in 4Q2010
Still don’t believe data is growing? We caught this little tidbit from our friends over at the Storage Newsletter. The numbers are in, and according to TrendFocus, mobile HDDs are up 3.7% YTY, with Western Digital increasing its market share to 30%, Segate coming in at around 20%, and a total of 29.3 exabytes shipped [...]
Browser War Update, Including Mobile Numbers
You know every once in a while we take a look at the analytics to get a better picture of our audience base, and recently the spectrum has gotten a bit wider. In the early days of the Internet's expansion it was Netscape versus Internet Explorer; today, it's Mozilla FireFox, IE, Google Chrome, Opera, and several other varieties all vying for screen-space on our digital devices. What I want to do today is take a look at some of our internals and reflect on the current division within the browser space, and device arena as well -- a very interesting segment of our numbers.
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