For the 50 Leading System Builders, storage systems accounted for only 2 percent of all units built in 2005, but the number of storage units built grew 94 percent compared to 2004. These five system builders reported building the most storage units:
Each year, a few vendor partner programs get our 5-star award. Check out the 5-star partner programs in the storage space, including SAN and NAS, backup systems, disk drives and cloud storage.
In the first quarter of 2012, vendors introduced a wide range of SSDs and Flash memory devices to increase the storage performance of mission-critical applications.
Anyone looking for new ways to tackle storage issues related to VDI, virtual servers and the cloud found many possible solutions at the VMware Partner Exchange conference.