Making Sense of the Store-and-Serve Landscape

Ted Theocheung — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 07:38:51 GMT

Description
Product Category: Market dBrief™
Price: $0
Release Date: 2008 Q2
Author:Ted Theocheung
Pages: 15
Figures: 1
Tables: 1

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One Platform to Rule Them All: The Age of the Home Server Begins

Summary

The importance of secure digital storage is well understood in the enterprise world, but its value in the home is only now becoming manifest. Consumers are increasingly aware that the value of their "digital assets" (the personal home movies they create, the digital music and video they collect, and the digital information they archive) can be compromised by a variety of threats. Hence the need for a convenient, inexpensive and easy-to-use backup solution.

This Market dBrief™ highlights the trends driving demand for home storage solutions, as well as discussing the various models of home servers. Many specific storage solutions are examined.

Table of Contents
       Introduction
        Key Trends Driving Demand for Home Servers
        Start Making Sense - A Taxonomy of Store-and-Serve Solutions
        PC-Centric Store-and-Serve Solutions
        Microsoft's E-PC Offering
        Apple's E_PC Offering
        Network Attached Storage (NAS)
        Home Server Computers
        The Relevance of Microsoft's Windows Home Server
        CE-Centric Store-and-Serve Solutions
        Smart Storage Appliances
        Home Entertainment Server Appliances
        Final Thoughts

Making Sense of the Store-and-Serve Landscape : Ted Theocheung

Making Sense of the Store-and-Serve Landscape