IDC reports storage software surge

According to IDC`s latest market research, the storage software market surged 12.6% to $8.9 billion in 2005, writes SearchStorage.com.

"EMC led with 29.7% revenue share, followed by Symantec with 20.3 % and IBM with 10.5%. Network Appliance and Hewlett-Packard rounded out the top five with 6.6 % and 6.5%, respectively," notes the article.

Backup, archive and storage resource management segments each grabbed about a third of the market; replication grew 21.7% during the fourth quarter year-on-year.

Asbru Software, a cross platform Web content management system (CMS) developer, announced the release of version 6.0 of the Asbru Web Content Management system.

"Among the new features is the ability to personalise the content delivered to Web site visitors. Depending on the Web site visitor`s Internet domain name or Web browser language preference settings, visitors can be routed to different Web content," reports Webhosting.info.

The CMS is designed to provide control and simplicity for non-technical users while maintaining flexibility and power for developers.

Amazon Web Services announced the arrival of Amazon S3 - a Web-based storage service that gives subscribers access to the same data storage systems Amazon uses to run its Web sites, writes SearchStorage.com.

The service costs 15 US cents per GB of storage per month and 20 US cents per GB of data transferred. The S3 service allows users to write, read and delete objects containing from 1GB to 5GB of data each.

"The number of objects that can be stored is unlimited - each object is stored and retrieved via a unique key. Objects can be made private or public, and rights can be assigned to specific users," adds the article.