Storage trends report released

Research and Markets has released its Storage Software & Hardware Market 2007-2010 - Bundled Report, says Marketwatch.

The report forecasts the market size of storage hardware from 2007 to 2010. It also segments the market geographically and presents market size for major countries in various regions and identifies key selling drivers.

The report concludes that the increase in demand for data protection is contributing to demand for storage software; that regulations and compliance drives the sales of storage software; and that content-rich business applications in telecommunications, media and Web 2.0 are also driving storage capacity needs.

Webair has introduced a cloud storage system designed to address the needs of storing, managing and accessing file-based data and other digital content, reports Marketwatch.

Webair says businesses can create a single, shared pool of storage that can modularly scale to more than 2.3 petabytes of capacity and deliver data throughput of up to 20GB per second.

"Our clients look for increased speed and seamless scalability, and the days of adding individual hard drives and trying to keep up with the next wave of digital media demands have ended - the system uses multiple nodes with multiple drives and balances data requests across a vast secure network," said Webair's president, Michael Christopher.

JMR Electronics will unveil its line of BlueStor PeSAN RAID storage solutions at the 2008 DV Expo, in Los Angeles this November, states Marketwatch.

The company's newest BlueStor 888 desktop storage subsystem: an 8-bay SAS/SATA JBOD or all-in-one server, with SFF-8088 mini-SAS host connectivity, will also be unveiled.

Recently, JMR developed patented disruptive storage technology based on the PCIe standard, marking its new strategy for direct-attached storage and network-attached storage standards for SME deployments over IT and video applications.