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  • Mobile App Inventory Crosses 1 Million Mark

    December 22, 2011 10:55 AM | By Ed Hansberry

    Apple's App Store is the biggest, but it's the only one of seven app stores that didn't post double-digit growth in 2011.

  • Android Adoption Twice That Of iOS

    September 27, 2011 01:07 PM | By Ed Hansberry

    Google's mobile operating system was running on 56% of phones sold in the past three months, more than all other competitors combined, says a report from Nielson.

  • Storage Hardware: Is The End Near?

    July 15, 2011 04:23 PM | By George Crump

    It increasingly looks like applications, operating systems, and hypervisors will provide the features and functions we've come to expect from our storage hardware.

  • How To Tune Apps For Solid State Storage

    May 24, 2011 11:18 AM | By George Crump

    Just because you put a race car engine inside your storage system does not mean that your application will instantly go faster.

  • Microsoft Set To Unveil Windows Phone 'Mango' Update

    May 16, 2011 01:33 PM | By Ed Hansberry

    Details emerge about features that will be revealed May 24, including Internet Explorer 9, revamped messaging, and improved syncing, about the mobile OS update due this fall.

  • Android Dominates Now, Windows Mobile Will In 2015

    May 08, 2011 10:53 PM | By Ed Hansberry

    For the foreseeable future, consumers' interest in smartphones will be very similar to recent trends. The long term though looks very different than it does today.

  • Blackberry 7 Announced

    May 03, 2011 10:59 AM | By Ed Hansberry

    RIM announced the Blackberry 7 platform on Monday, but it doesn't have the QNX operating system that many have been anticipating.

  • The Passive Primary Storage Tier

    April 04, 2011 02:37 PM | By George Crump

    Primary storage, especially the storage that supports file based data, is challenging to deal with. In most environments file based data, data created by office productivity and rich media applications can number in the double digit TB's, can bring backup applications to a crawl and cause countless retention issues. The challenge is that 80% or more of this data had an active life span of a month but can't be deleted "just in case". What is needed is to create a passive tier of primary storage.

  • Data Storage Vs. Information Management

    April 01, 2011 04:44 PM | By Kurt Marko

    A recent reader response to my State of Storage 2011 report got me thinking about the difference between data and information, or, more generally between technology itself and the ways we creatively use it to solve problems. State of Storage, as these annual reviews are wont to do, focused on trends in storage technology. My correspondent, however, called me for not discussing information management-one way we apply tech to improve how we do business. "I was underwhelmed with the article in that it only focused on the technology platform components of storage and was silent on how we should organize the data we store," he wrote. "In an old-world analogy, it would be like the Library of Congress worrying about the number of shelves they build and the type of wood to build the shelves."

  • Collecting The SSD Garbage

    March 28, 2011 03:11 PM | By George Crump

    Solid state storage (SSS) is the performance alternative to mechanical hard disk drives (HDD). Flash memory, thanks to its reduced cost compared to DRAM, has become the primary way the (SSS) is delivered. Suppliers of flash systems, especially in the enterprise, have to overcome two flash deficiencies that, as we discussed in our last entry, will cause unpredictable performance and reduce reliability. In this entry we'll focus on how vendors are providing predictable performance.

  • Understanding SSD Vendor Talk

    March 25, 2011 10:01 AM | By George Crump

    If you are either evaluating or getting ready to evaluate investing in solid state storage for your data center you are going to be faced with learning a new language, confronted with a new set of specs and a new set of debate around what features are most important. This will be the first entry in a series that will give you the decoder ring to understanding what Solid State Disk (SSD) vendors are talking about and what statistics are most important.
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