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Hype Cycle for Storage Software Technologies, 2005
3 June 2005
 
Carolyn DiCenzo   Fara Yale   April Adams   Pushan Rinnen   John Monroe   Joe Skorupa   Robert E. Passmore   Stanley Zaffos   Josh Krischer  

Storage management software keeps growing steadily, as companies look to ensure data availability while managing costs. Regulatory changes make building and managing tiered storage infrastructures a major initiative, especially in industries subject to many lawsuits, such as finance and healthcare.




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Table of Contents


1.0
    
 The Hype Cycle

2.0
    
 On the Rise

2.1
    
 Content Indexing
2.2
    
 Switch-Based Virtualization
2.3
    
 Single Instance Store
2.4
    
 Continuous Data Protection
2.5
    
 WAFS
2.6
    
 Database Archiving
2.7
    
 File Archiving/Distributed HSM

3.0
    
 At the Peak

3.1
    
 Recovery From Disk
3.2
    
 SRM

4.0
    
 Sliding Into the Trough

4.1
    
 CAS
4.2
    
 Clustered File Systems
4.3
    
 WORM Software (Tamper-Proof)
4.4
    
 Distributed Virtual Tape
4.5
    
 File Virtualization
4.6
    
 SAN Management
4.7
    
 E-Mail Archiving
4.8
    
 Appliance-Based Virtualization

5.0
    
 Climbing the Slope

5.1
    
 Server- and Appliance-Based Replication
5.2
    
 Mainframe Virtual Tape
5.3
    
 Tape Backup
5.4
    
 Array-Based Replication

6.0
    
 Entering the Plateau

6.1
    
 Array-Based Virtualization

7.0
    
 Conclusions

8.0
    
 Appendix A: Previous Iteration of the Hype Cycle

9.0
    
 Appendix B: Hype Cycle Phases, Benefit Ratings and Maturity Levels


List of Tables


Table 1.  
 Hype Cycle Phases
 

Table 2.  
 Benefit Ratings
 

Table 3.  
 Maturity Levels
 

List of Figures


Figure 1. 
 Hype Cycle for Storage Software Technologies, 2005
 

Figure 2. 
 Hype Cycle for Storage Software Technologies, 2004
 



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