Let's give thanks for a great year in storage:

Steve Duplessie summarizes the year that was, in storage, touching on purchases, industry focuses, who got bigger, who got smaller, and who rolled on in and took a piece of everyone else's pie.

Microsoft,[...] entered the data protection market with its Data Protection Manager offering. Having Microsoft stick its fingers into a $5 billion annual pie is like having Tom Brady show up uninvited to your dinner party--it's great to talk about until he leaves with your date.

Great imagery.

In an older post (August last year, in fact) Steve weighs in on the smaller players that might just be worth keeping an eye on... Some interesting sounding stuff happening down at the shallow end of the pool.