IceWEB Brings Affordable "Big Data" Manageability to Mid-Market Enterprises
March 15 2012 - 12:31PM
Marketwired
IceWEB, Inc.™ (OTCBB: IWEB), www.IceWEB.com, a leading provider of
Unified Data Storage appliances for cloud and virtual environments,
announced readily available solutions to mid-market enterprise
organizations' "Big Data" challenges with IceWEB's Unified Data
Storage Appliances.
International Data Corporation (IDC) defines Big Data
technologies as 'a new generation of technologies and architectures
designed to extract value economically from very large volumes of a
wide variety of data by enabling high-velocity capture, discovery,
and/or analysis.' While data storage has traditionally served as a
place for structured and unstructured data to rest, Big Data
enables organizations to apply analytical applications such as
business intelligence across all the organizations' data,
increasing productivity and the value of an organization's critical
information assets.
IceWEB's Unified Data Storage Appliances clearly address Big
Data challenges not only for enterprises where Big Data challenges
are most prevalent, but also for mid-sized organizations facing the
same challenges, but on a smaller scale and with tighter IT budgets
and fewer resources to harness the staggering amount of data
companies are producing. Gartner Group analyst Doug Laney
characterizes big data challenges as being driven by three primary
factors, including ever-increasing data volumes, velocity (speed of
data in/out), and variety (range of data types, sources). IceWEB's
unique abilities to address mid-market Big Data challenges
include:
- Scalability - from IceWEB's entry-level 4 TB IceWEB 2000
appliance to its multi-petabyte IceWEB 6000 systems
- Unified - able to handle the range of data types and sources
over various storage protocols
- Speed - hybrid disk pooling between high performance SSD to
high capacity SAS drives, combined with IceWEB's IceCAP Cache
Acceleration Protocol
- Cloud enabled - with award-winning replication capabilities to
combine disparate databases into a centralized data center for
business intelligence spanning enterprise wide data
- Manageability - automated storage tiering, thin provisioning,
and multiple levels of physical and logical data protection
- Affordability - benefits of a SAN without the prohibitive big
vendor costs that have kept mid-market organizations from realizing
the benefits of centralized manageability of storage resources from
a single pane of glass
"With IceWEB's highly manageable, scalable and affordable
unified storage systems, mid-market organizations can harness Big
Data to achieve the benefits of business intelligence and
enterprise analytics," said Steven Toole, Chief Marketing Officer
at IceWEB. "While Big Data in the mid market may not be of the
scale and proportion of Big Data in the Fortune 5000, mid-market
organizations are equally dependent on leveraging their information
assets to make intelligent decisions. IceWEB will continue to
develop and refine its Big Data offerings, including several key
technology alliances currently in development which will be
announced later this year."
IceWEB is already working with numerous mid-market companies and
government agencies to enable Big Data initiatives using Cloudera's
Apache Hadoop file system.
In the first growth forecast of the worldwide market for Big
Data technology and services, IDC projects a $16.9 billion spend as
compared to an estimated $3.2 billion in 2010 -- a 40% compound
annual growth rate. Released on March 7, 2012, the report entitled
Worldwide Big Data Technology and Services 2012-2015 Forecast
estimates that 61.4% of the spend on Big Data solutions will be on
storage, emphasizing the increasing importance of system
performance, availability, security, manageability, and cloud
integration of storage appliances.
"While software and services make up the bulk of the market
opportunity through 2015, infrastructure technology for Big Data
deployments is expected to grow slightly faster at 44% CAGR.
Storage, in particular, shows the strongest growth opportunity,
growing at 61.4% CAGR through 2015," said Benjamin S. Woo, program
vice president, Storage Systems at IDC. "The significant growth
rate in revenue is underscored by the large number of new open
source projects that drive infrastructure investments."
IceWEB's award-winning unified data storage systems are
available to help mid-enterprise organizations address their Big
Data challenges through IceWEB's network of channel partners
throughout North America. To find a partner for pricing and a live
web demonstration, visit www.iceweb.com.
About IceWEB, Inc. Headquartered just
outside of Washington, D.C., IceWEB manufactures award-winning,
high performance unified data storage appliances with enterprise
storage management capabilities at a fraction of the price of
traditional providers. Through thin provisioning, target
deduplication and inline compression, IceWEB's unified storage
arrays enable standardization, consolidation and optimized storage
utilization for virtual and cloud environments, saving up to 90% of
storage costs, while reducing space, power and cooling requirements
and simplifying storage management. For more information please
call 800-465-4637 or visit www.iceweb.com.
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Contact: IceWEB, Inc. Investor Relations 571.287.2400
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