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This segment includes tape libraries, optical libraries, hard-disk drive upgrades/replacements, and RAID-based storage system services.
Industry:Technology
This segment includes other storage subsystem services and redundant array of independent disks (RAID)-based storage system services.
• RAID-based storage system services — This category includes the total of all external controller-based RAID-based disk storage, host-based external RAID storage, host-based internal RAID storage and network-attached storage. RAID refers to a set of disk drives (at least two) with input/output activity that is managed by external-based or host-based RAID technology.
• Other storage subsystem services — This category includes tape libraries, optical libraries and hard-disk drive upgrades/replacements.
Industry:Technology
A company that provides computer storage capacity and management services. In addition to the storage itself, SSPs typically offer periodic backup and archiving, and some offer to consolidate data from multiple enterprise locations so that all locations can share the data effectively.
Industry:Technology
Storage resource management (SRM) software provides near-real-time and historical information for the storage infrastructure regarding availability, capacity and performance, device management, problem determination, configuration planning and change management. SRM software identifies storage usage, availability and performance by application, business unit or user, providing data that can be used for IT consumption tracking and chargeback in homogeneous and heterogeneous environments. Storage provisioning and workflow management features are also provided to automate operational tasks. Delivery is in the form of full product suites, as well as focused solutions that address a specific area, such as storage area network (SAN) management or analytics.
Industry:Technology
The storage management software market includes all software products that are sold as value-added options to run on a server, storage network device or storage device to aid in managing the device or managing and protecting the data. Revenue is for new license sales and for maintenance and support services that include new version license sales to update an existing license to a new version, telephone support and on-site remedial support. Revenue does not include professional services. For products to be included in this coverage, they must represent a revenue stream for the company that is separately tracked and not be only part of a bundled product or service. Hosted storage solutions, such as hosted backup or hosted email archiving, are included in this market. Storage management software coverage spans from the desktop to the mainframe and includes products that focus on a single or limited set of devices, as well as those products that support a heterogeneous set of devices. The storage management software market is divided into seven segments. Storage management software is the sum of all the segments and represents all the tools needed to manage capacity, performance and availability of data stored on disks, tapes and optical devices, as well as the networking devices that the data may pass through.
Industry:Technology
A SAN consists of two tiers: The first tier — the storage plumbing tier — provides connectivity between nodes in a network and transports device-oriented commands and status. At least one storage node must be connected to this network. The second tier — the software tier — uses software to provide value-added services that operate over the first tier.
Industry:Technology
A type of computing appliance that provides data to, or manages data for, other network-connected computing devices. Unlike server appliances, storage appliances provide or manage data without an application context. This category of computing devices includes network-attached storage (NAS) and storage area network (SAN) devices. See computing appliance, server appliance, NAS and SAN.
Industry:Technology
A unique identification number that defines an item at the identifiable inventory level; for example, in retail applications, the SKU may designate style, size and color. A more detailed level would be at the serial number or unique identifier level.
Industry:Technology
The general term applied to website qualities that attract and hold visitors. A sticky website is assumed to be offering higher value than one that is not sticky.
Industry:Technology
Time shared dynamically between active channels on a multiplexer.
Industry:Technology
