Starboard Storage Blog

    The Information Technology Industry’s Coveted Hot Companies and Best Products Award Winners and Finalists from all over the world were honored by Network Products Guide in Las Vegas on May 7, 2013 for the 8th Annual 2013 Hot Companies and Best Products Award.  These industry and peer recognitions from Network Products Guide are the world's premier information technology awards honoring achievements and recognitions in every facet of the IT industry and Starboard Storage Systems was honored to be a winner in the Hot Companies Category.  Starboard was the only Hybrid Storage solution to win an award.  Starboard beat companies such as SolarWinds and Nimble storage in this category.

New Hybrid Storage Products Announced

Everybody has heard of the Cash Cow.  It is generally defined as “A business, investment, or product that provides a steady income or profit.”

The availability of solid state storage has fueled new storage platforms. One thing I am constantly asked is ‘what is the best way to implement solid state in networked storage platforms?’  Since I work for a vendor that uses solid state as cache, I clearly have a bias, but then so does every other vendor.  Someone has to be right about what will be the pre-dominate use case and here is why I believe that it will be unified hybrid storage.

As organizations look to make the most of the dollars they spend on IT, inevitably there is discussion on using The Cloud. Often this involves considering how to leverage public cloud technology to help reduce internal CAPEX and OPEX. There are many different forms of cloud service: Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Storage as a Service (StaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS); the fact is, most organizations are already using The Cloud in some form. Maybe they are using a cloud-based platform for software development; maybe they have a cloud-based ERP solution such as Salesforce.com. The question is not whether you will use The Cloud or whether you will move IT to The Cloud. You will use The Cloud and you will have internal IT.