`Storage Networking - a Market Analysis'.Business Editors & High-Tech high-tech also hi-tech adj. Informal Of, relating to, or resembling high technology. high-tech Adjective same as hi-tech Adj. 1. Writers SANTA BARBARA Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 24, 2002 An exclusive survey of over 400 storage IT managers was conducted by Peripheral Concepts, Inc. and Hattras, Inc., revealing that two out of three data centers with over one terabyte One trillion bytes. Also TB, Tbyte and T-byte. See tera and space/time. (unit) terabyte - 2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes = 1024 gigabytes or roughly 10^12 bytes. (Note the spelling - one 'r'). See prefix. of disk storage capacity currently deploy a SAN, and this ratio will grow to three out of four by the end of 2003. Companies with at least one NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular deployed today will grow from 38% to 60% during the same time period. A significant percentage of the companies surveyed own more than one SAN and remain cautious in their consolidation plans. Performance emerges as number one on the list of the most desired features. Who buys SANs and why? What do IT managers like and dislike? Why did some IT managers decide not to purchase NAS? How many IT managers plan to move to IP-storage? What vendors captured the lion share of the market, and what are users' criteria criteria (krītēr´ē  ),n. in selecting a vendor? These are just some of the questions that are addressed. Also, learn what keeps IT managers awake at night and for which solutions or services are companies willing to pay extra. At a time where budgets are tight, and businesses are striving to improve their bottom line, storage software vendors also face changes to their standard licensing models. Learn how Microsoft (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA, www.microsoft.com) The most successful and influential software company. Microsoft's software and Intel's hardware pioneered the PC and revolutionized the computer industry. is influencing changes in the way that licensing is structured and how this has led to significant controversy among end users. This extensive survey sheds new light on IT operations -- demographics The attributes of people in a particular geographic area. Used for marketing purposes, population, ethnic origins, religion, spoken language, income and age range are examples of demographic data. for servers, hardware and software storage vendors, switch and hub products, as well as storage services, segmented by operation size. The report is now available. If you have any questions, please contact us at (805) 563-9491, e-mail: reports@periconcepts.com or view the detailed table of contents on the Web at www.periconcepts.com under Reports. Key words: Storage, Networks, SAN, NAS |
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