Horison Information Strategies

Executive Speaking

Providing keynote speaking at IT conferences and storage industry events for vendors, end-users, analyst groups, channel partners, and investors.

Storage Publications

Providing whitepapers, research reports, media articles and market publications for the storage industry.

Business Development

Providing business development, market creation services and partnership opportunities.

Marketing Strategy

Developing marketing strategies, competitive analysis, long-range strategic plans, and quantitative value propositions.

Publications

September 7, 2017

RAIT – Redundant Arrays of Independent Tape

Rapid Transit for Mass Storage ABSTRACT RAIT (Redundant Arrays of Independent Tape) are the tape drive equivalent of RAID (Redundant Arrays of Independent Disks) for disk drives. RAIT is sometimes called “tape RAID”. RAIT arrays use the same algorithms that …

September 7, 2017

Tape 2017: New Game. New Rules.

2017 Tape Technology Report ABSTRACT To fully address the enormous digital data challenge, the tape industry has been rearchitecting itself and the renaissance is well underway. The tape industry continues to deliver new technologies and compelling functions including unprecedented cartridge …

September 7, 2017

LTFS Fueling the Tape Transformation 2017

Redefining the Tape Transformation ABSTRACT Since its inception, tape has been a sequential access storage device. Though this proved beneficial for backup and many “data streaming applications”, the ability to randomly navigate a tape cartridge to locate a specific file …

September 7, 2017

The Archival Upheaval 2017

Planning for the Archive Avalanche ABSTRACT Data centers have become the backbone of the global economy from the server rooms that power smallorganizations to the large enterprise data centers hosting enormous server and storage farms. The world’sdata centers now consume …