Fri 7 Mar 2008
Why Storage is So Difficult
Posted by jtmcarthur under Product development, Startups, Storage and Data Management
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It’s been just over a year, since I left IDC to form Walden Technology Partners, Inc. with David Burmon. While I didn’t expect to continue spending so much time in the storage and data management industry, that is how things have worked out initially. All of our current clients are involved, at least in part, in some aspect of information protection, storage, or management. And with the continued growth in information and content, a growth that is relatively immune to the effects of economic conditions, it should not have been a surprise to me.
Note that I said that the growth of content is relatively immune to economic conditions. The market for storage hardware and information management software has been proven many times to be highly affected by economic conditions.
Problems in information management have been around forever, and will persist far into the future, as this YouTube video documents. You’ve got to watch it. Really. And it’s not a product pitch. (more…)